Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War Paris at War When on May 15

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War Paris at War When on May 15Description by Max Hastings Paperback From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battlesthe Marne, Ypres, Tannenbergthat marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to war, making clear