![]() ![]() I found it a real effort to read (and stay awake) to the extent that I reached page 488 and then gave up, skipped to the conclusions but didn’t really gain any new insight about the origins of world war I. Indeed, detail after "minutiae" detail tended to overwhelm the events that should have been highlighted. ![]() However, flying in the face of international experts, I think there is so much immense detail therein that, frankly, it is verbose and dull. The book begins with the grim murder of the King of Serbia in 1904 and soon into the text, the author emphasises that he will try to explain how the war started but not why it started I thought that was an interesting perspective. Having read “The War that ended Peace” by Margaret MacMillan, I was intrigued to discover if another historian covering the same ground, would generate some new ideas and insights about how the Great Powers went to war in 1914. This book is well-recommended by an array of international historians and by critics for major newspapers. ![]()
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