MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 06657cam 2200781 i 4500
001 ocn833381194
003 OCoLC
005 20210420075129.0
008 130325s2013 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013009274
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dMOF$dUPZ$dJAI$dABG$dYDXCP$dBTCTA$dBDX$dCHVBK$dKAA$dOCLCF$dSGB$dNSB$dCGP$dVHP$dVLR$dOCLCQ$dMOV$dSFR$dBYV$dUSSAE$dOCLCO$dLCO$dKJ6$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO$dTUU$dCCH$dOCLCQ$dRVA$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dFWR$dOCLCO$dOL$$dBDP$dZQP$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO$dOCL$dOCLCA$dIL4J6$dOCLCO
019 $a827973790$a861734133$a874774116$a894539505$a935938342$a966553469
020 $a9781400068555$q(alk. paper)
020 $a140006855X$q(alk. paper)
020 $z9780812994704$q(ebook)
020 $a0812994701
020 $a9780812994704
020 $a9781846682728
020 $a184668272X
020 $a9780670064045
020 $a0670064041
024 3 $a9781400068555$d53500
035 $a(OCoLC)833381194$z(OCoLC)827973790$z(OCoLC)861734133$z(OCoLC)874774116$z(OCoLC)894539505$z(OCoLC)935938342$z(OCoLC)966553469
037 $bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157$nSAN 201-3975
042 $apcc
043 $ae------
050 00 $aD511$b.M257 2013
055 3 $aD511$bM27
082 00 $a940.3/11$223
084 $aHIS010020$aPOL011000$aHIS027090$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMacMillan, Margaret,$d1943-
245 14 $aThe war that ended peace :$bthe road to 1914 /$cMargaret MacMillan.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2013.
300 $axxxv, 739 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 691-710) and index.
505 0 $aEurope in 1900 -- Great Britain and splendid isolation -- Woe to the country that has a child for king! Wilhelm II and Germany -- Weltpolitik: Germany's place on the world stage -- Dreadnought: the Anglo-German naval rivalry -- Unlikely friends: the entente cordiale between France and Britain -- The bear and the whale: Russia and Great Britain -- The loyalty of the Nibelungs: the dual alliance of Austria-Hungary and Germany -- What were they thinking? Hopes, fears, ideas, and unspoken assumptions -- Dreaming of peace -- Thinking about war -- Making the plans -- The crises start: Germany, France and Morocco -- The Bosnian crisis: confrontation between Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Balkans -- 1911: the year of discords-Morocco again -- The first Balkan Wars -- Preparing for war or peace: Europe's last months of peace -- Assassination at Sarajevo -- The end of the concert of Europe: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia -- Turning out the lights: Europe's last week of peace.
520 $aThis work presents a narrative portrait of Europe in the years leading up to World War I that illuminates the political, cultural, and economic factors and contributing personalities that shaped major events.
520 $aFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned heads across Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph, a man who tried, through sheer hard work, to stave off the coming chaos in his empire; in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife; in Britain, King Edward VII, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and British admiral Jacky Fisher, the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea. There are the would-be peacemakers as well, among them prophets of the horrors of future wars whose warnings went unheeded: Alfred Nobel, who donated his fortune to the cause of international understanding, and Bertha von Suttner, a writer and activist who was the first woman awarded Nobel's new Peace Prize. Here too we meet the urbane and cosmopolitan Count Harry Kessler, who noticed many of the early signs that something was stirring in Europe; the young Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and a rising figure in British politics; Madame Caillaux, who shot a man who might have been a force for peace; and more. With indelible portraits, MacMillan shows how the fateful decisions of a few powerful people changed the course of history. Taut, suspenseful, and impossible to put down, The War That Ended Peace is also a wise cautionary reminder of how wars happen in spite of the near-universal desire to keep the peace. Destined to become a classic in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, The War That Ended Peace enriches our understanding of one of the defining periods and events of the twentieth century. - Publisher.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses.
650 7 $aWar$xCauses.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01170331
650 7 $aUrsache$2gnd
650 7 $aWeltkrieg$2gnd
650 7 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses.$2nli
650 7 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses.$2sears
647 7 $aWorld War$d(1914-1918)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01180746
648 7 $a1914-1918$2fast
655 4 $aNarrative non-fiction.
856 4 $uhttp://www.margaretmacmillan.com/
856 4 $uhttp://www.randomhousebooks.com/
938 $aBrodart$bBROD$n104085916
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0012793965
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n10143937
029 1 $aAU@$b000050700484
029 1 $aCHBIS$b010044178
029 1 $aCHDSB$b006278557
029 1 $aCHNEW$b000626546
029 1 $aCHVBK$b305332902
029 1 $aCHVBK$b313532281
029 1 $aCHVBK$b319722759
029 1 $aNLNZL$b9916383143502836
029 1 $aNZ1$b15178291
029 1 $aNZ1$b1638314
994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 1577 OTHER HOLDINGS