Storm of 1914

In the summer of 1914 two gunshots in a Balkan street set in motion a catastrophe that no statesman could halt. Within weeks the great powers of Europe, bound by alliances and driven by railway timetables and the cult of the offensive, marched their peoples into the deadliest war the world had yet seen.In one sweeping, authoritative volume, E.B Cohen tells the whole story: the long road to war and...