Ebook {Epub PDF} The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty

 · In The Lost History of , Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. "This one maps the multiple paths that led away from it." Chronicling largely forgotten events faced by each of the belligerent countries in the months before Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing.  · Review of Jack Beatty, The Lost History of Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began (Walker Co., ), vii + pgs., hardcover, $ The th anniversary of World War I—the Great War, the War to End All Wars—is next year. A steady stream of new and reissued books on the war has already been flowing for the past couple of years. His most recent book, "The Lost History of Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began," takes a closer look at the events that lead to World War I. The New Yorker called "The Lost History of.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Lost History Of Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! "The Lost History of Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began" (Walker Co.), by Jack Beatty: By , the doddering Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph had been on the throne for more than six decades. "Aged, isolated, incurious," he read only the happy parts of the newspaper that his aides marked in red. Those same aides fed him false information before war was declared on Serbia, which. Note: This review is by my husband Jim. Most people learn that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was the spark that ignited World War I, and that, because of interlocking military alliances, the war was inevitable even without that specific immediate cause. However, in The Lost History of , Jack Beatty challenges the theory of the war's inevitability.

Chronicling largely forgotten events faced by each of the belligerent countrieIn The Lost History of , Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. In The Lost History of , Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. "This one maps the multiple paths that led away from it." Chronicling largely forgotten events faced by each of the belligerent countries in the months before the war started in August, Beatty shows how any one of them-a possible military coup in Germany. Review of Jack Beatty, The Lost History of Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began (Walker Co., ), vii + pgs., hardcover, $ The th anniversary of World War I—the Great War, the War to End All Wars—is next year. A steady stream of new and reissued books on the war has already been flowing for the past couple of years.