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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.311
EAN num: 9780521545303
ISBN number: 0521545307
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Page Count: 282
Printing Date: December 13, 2004
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Focusing on the choices made by coteries, this study examines the perplexing question of why World War I happened. In each case, the decision to enter the war was made by a handful of individuals--monarchs, ministers, military people, party leaders, ambassadors, and a few others. In each case also, separate and distinct agendas are seen, with considerations differing from one nation to the next. The leadership of Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, the Balkans, and the United States are explored, as well as that of the major powers involved--Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, and Great Britain,
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Very good and scholarly work. This book could only have been written when many of the "secret archives" became available after the Berlin wall came down. Many of the German documents were stored in eastern Germany, thus unavailable to modern scholars of the period. Austria wanted to have a "small" Balkan war that they could win quickly. The various treaties between
France, Russia,and Great Britain on one side, and Germany, Austia-Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria etc.on the other. A faction in the Serbian military were supporting a secret conflict to destabilize Bosnia-Hersgovenia a part of the Austo-Hugarian Empire, by supplying Serbian "freedom" fighters with arms.The resulting bad luck and wrong turn lead to the death of Franz-Ferdinand, and his wife.They really killed the wrong man; Franz-Ferdinand was in favor of allowing the small Balkan countries to unite.
Austria wanted to punish Serbia for its roll in this assination. With Austria afraid of the Russians, coming to the aid of Serbia, they approached, Kaiser Willhem II of Germany. Germany thus gave Austria, Carte-Blanche to go to war against Serbia. Austria and
Germany, thought they would have a fast victorius war,and would be the new superpowers in Central Europe. Once they got that ball rolling everything fell into place exactly wrong.
Three Empires (Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary were toppled...and the seeds of Hitler's rise to power would bud in 20 more years. The best example of the Law of Un-Intended Consequences ever seen;and another example of brinksmanship followed to its logical end by diplomats, Generals and foolish leaders, on almost all sides. Austria-Hungary, and Willhem of Germany, getting the most of the points for blame
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