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Europe's Last Summer

Europe's Last Summer

HistoryMilitary History
Pages
384
Published
2004
Language
English

Synopsis

David Fromkin offers a fresh perspective on the origins of the Great War. He argues that the events of July and August 1914 were not a single, inevitable conflict, but rather two related wars. This book challenges conventional wisdom, suggesting that hostilities were deliberately initiated and explores the complex causes behind what became known as 'perhaps the greatest tragedy in human history.

Prose complexity
7/10

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Thought-ProvokingInformativeReflectiveComplex

Genres

History Military History Politics & Society World War I Military

About the author

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David Fromkin

David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 – June 11, 2017) was an American historian, best known for his interpretive account of the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Fromkin wrote seven books, ending in 2007 with *The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt an...