Why 1914?
Short, brisk and highly readable, this account stands out from the flood of books written for the Centenary of the Great War.
In Why 1914?, Derek Robinson - trained as a historian, shortlisted for the Booker Prize - applies his novelist''s skills to asking how and why Europe hurried into such a massive disaster.
He captures a world of kings and Kaisers, generals and infantrymen. None of them knew ...
Short, brisk and highly readable, this account stands out from the flood of books written for the Centenary of the Great War.
In Why 1914?, Derek Robinson - trained as a historian, shortlisted for the Booker Prize - applies his novelist''s skills to asking how and why Europe hurried into such a massive disaster.
He captures a world of kings and Kaisers, generals and infantrymen. None of them knew ...
