Author: Jannen, William Jr.
Publisher: Presidio Pr
Year: 1997
ISBN: 0891416374
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Good
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description: New book, some shelf wear to cover, 456 pages. This book gives a day by day account of the political games, power plays, entangling treaties, alliances, ignorance, miscalculation, chauvinism, and pride which led up to the start of WW1. Told from all sides of procedings, it provides an immensely effective audit of how and why the Old Worlds aristocratic leaders failed to keep the peace during the summer of 1914.