Ebook {Epub PDF} Europes Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? by David Fromkin

Fromkin portrays the events and people that led to the Great War with great precision, which provides a valuable background. As for the second part, without spoiling the book too much, the author puts the blame mainly on Germany and Austria-Hungary/5(). Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in ? Author: David Fromkin: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Knopf, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects4/5(3). Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in ? Author: David Fromkin: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Knopf, Original from: the University of Michigan: Digitized: Jun 9, 4/5(3).

The First World War of was the bloodiest conflict in Canadian history, taking the lives of The names of the 11, Canadians who died in France in the First World War with no known During a visit to England that summer, Prime Minister Borden was shocked with the magnitude of the struggle. When the war broke out in , it was a certainty that, because of longstanding economic, family and defence ties, Australia, along with New Zealand, would stand alongside Britain. The then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was quick to pledge the country's support to "the last man, the last shilling". Also called The Great War, World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and set the stage for another world war just 20 years later. Archduke Franz Ferdinand (), above, was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event incident precipitated World War I.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fromkin, David. Europe's last summer: who started the Great War in ? /by David Fromkin.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1. World War, —Causes. II. I. Title: Who started the Great War in ?. Title. D$ F 'n—dc22 By David Fromkin. pp, Knopf, Purchase. World War I is again attracting a great deal of academic and journalistic interest. Fromkin treats it as a murder mystery, with great success. After a crisp, lively, day-by-day account of that fateful summer, he concludes that what struck Europe in June was anything but "jagged lightning flashing suddenly across a summer sky"; it was, rather, a powder keg ready to explode long before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in. World War (), World War, , Eerste Wereldoorlog, Oorzaken, Guerre mondiale, , Weltkrieg (), Kriegsschuldfrage, War Publisher New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House.