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The lost history of 1914 : reconsidering the year the great war began / Jack Beatty.

Beatty, Jack. (Author).
  • Description: 392 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Walker & Co.,
  • ISBN: 9780802778116
  • ISBN: 0802778119

Available copies

  • 7 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

Current holds

0 current holds with 8 total copies.

Library Location Call Number Status Due Date
Beverly Main Adult Nonfiction DS 511 .B3263 2012 (Text to phone) Checked out 04/25/2013
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Contents: Germany : saber rule -- Russia : sea of tears -- England : Ulster will fight -- The United States and Mexico : the president and the bandit -- Austria-Hungary : Franz Ferdinand lives : a counterfactual -- France : the wages of imperialism -- The victory of the spade -- Home fronts I -- Home fronts II.
Summary: Challenges beliefs that World War I was inevitable, documenting largely forgotten events in each of the warring countries to reveal how several factors may have prevented the war or caused a different outcome.

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