This is a magisterial new account of Europe's tragic descent into a largely inadvertent war in the summer of 1914. Thomas Otte reveals why a century-old system of Great Power politics collapsed so disastrously in the weeks from the 'shot heard around the world' on June 28th to Germany's declaration [...]
Pioneering study which charts how the collective mindset of Britain's diplomatic elite reacted to and shaped nineteenth-century British foreign policy.[...]