111. Ring Of Fire: A New Global History Of The Outbreak Of The First World War

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111. Ring Of Fire: A New Global History Of The Outbreak Of The First World War

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Alex Churchill

Most countries did not know what they were getting into during the precarious days of 1914. Global citizens believed they were going to get a short conflict that would settle old scores in a matter of weeks—but it was soon clear that was not going to be the case. Understanding such a complex conflict is difficult, and over the last hundred years, it has been made even more so by a repeatedly blinkered approach to the history of it, with a focus almost entirely on English-language sources and a narrow view of the conflict through two main prisms—the Eastern Front and the Western Front. Military historian Alex Churchill has scoured the globe in search of an enormous quantity of fresh material and brings a people’s view of the war, translated from more than a dozen languages, and presents an expansive, dynamic and ground-breaking history of the start of this truly global conflict.