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  Book Title: The Month
that Changed the World: July 1914	 	
  Book Author:  Gordon Martel
(Author) 
   Hardcover: 512 pages
   Publisher: Oxford University Press (July 1, 2014)
  
Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0199665389
   ISBN-13: 978-0199665389
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: July 1,
2014
  On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful
weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war.
  Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to
identify the 'guilty' person or state responsible, or alternatively attempting to explain the underlying forces that
'inevitably' led to war in 1914. Unsatisfied with these explanations, Gordon Martel now goes back to the contemporary
diplomatic, military, and political records to investigate the twists and turns of the crisis afresh, with the aim of
establishing just how the catastrophe really unfurled.
  What emerges is the story of a terrible, unnecessary
tragedy - one that can be understood only by retracing the steps taken by those who went down the road to war. With each
passing day, we see how the personalities of leading figures such as Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Emperor Franz Joseph, Tsar
Nicholas II, Sir Edward Grey, and Raymond Poincaré were central to the unfolding crisis, how their hopes and fears
intersected as events unfolded, and how each new decision produced a response that
  complicated or escalated
matters to the point where they became almost impossible to contain.
  Devoting a chapter to each day of the
infamous 'July Crisis', this gripping step by step account of the descent to war makes clear just how little the
conflict was in fact premeditated, preordained, or even predictable. Almost every day it seemed possible that the crisis
could be settled as so many had been over the previous decade; almost every day there was a new suggestion that gave
statesmen hope that war could be avoided without abandoning vital interests.
  And yet, as the last month of peace
ebbed away, the actions and reactions of the Great Powers disastrously escalated the situation. So much so that, by the
beginning of August, what might have remained a minor Balkan problem had turned into the cataclysm of the First World
War.
  
  Editorial
Review
  From Booklist
  Martel (The Origins of the First
World War, 1996) scrutinizes the monthlong diplomatic crisis that began with the assassination of Austrian Archduke
Franz Ferdinand and ended with the first volleys of the “war to end all wars.” Given the tangle of treaties,
alliances, and variously divergent national interests that gave rise to the crisis, not to mention the great number of
individuals involved, it’s an unavoidably complicated story. Historical explanations as to how relatively minor
local tensions in the Balkans boiled over into full-scale pan-European war are many, yet given the scope of the carnage
that would ensue—9 million people killed and 30 million injured, many horrifically—such explanations often
seem insufficient. On this greatest of questions Martel does not claim new clarity, suggesting that there is not, and
may never be, a full set of explanations for the choices made in July 1914. Instead, inspired by crime novelist Ian
Rankin, whose books demand that the reader be the detective, Martel embraces the complexity of the historical moment and
presents a thoroughly (and, at times, bewilderingly) detailed blow-by-blow account of the flurry of diplomatic activity
that, despite many opportunities to maintain peace, ultimately plunged the world into war. Readers seeking a more
explanatory approach may prefer Christopher Clark’s excellent The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
(2013), or Barbara Tuchman’s classic The Guns of August (1962), but Martel’s careful, encyclopedic
approach deserves to share a shelf with such works. --Brendan Driscoll
  
  Reviews
  "During the centenary year an avalanche of books on the First
World War's origins will descend upon the public. Gordon Martel's will stand out among them for its authoritative
judgements and for its no-nonsense focus on the decisions that caused the conflict's outbreak. It offers a detailed but
compelling narrative of the July 1914 crisis, based overwhelmingly on first-hand and contemporary evidence." --David Stevenson, author of 1914-1918: the History of the First World War
  

 "Few will accuse Martel of hyperbole-the events leading up to WWI certainly changed world history dramatically-and in
this fascinating and accessible account, the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of War clearly details the day-by-day
developments, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo to England's declaration of war." -- Publishers Weekly
  
  "Martel embraces the complexity of the historical
moment and presents a thoroughly (and at times, bewilderingly) detailed blow-by-blow account of the flurry of diplomatic
activity that, despite many opportunities to maintain peace, ultimately plunged the world into war."--Booklist
  
  "Mr. Martel's "The Month That Changed the World" relies on
published primary sources (which are exploited very thoroughly) and secondary works, and the author makes very effective
use of a day-by-day narrative approach. He has some acute insights."--Wall St
Journal
  
  About the Author
  Gordon Martel is a leading authority on war, empire, and diplomacy in the modern age.
His numerous publications include studies of the origins of the first and second world wars, modern imperialism, and the
nature of diplomacy. A founding editor of The International History Review, he has taught at a number of Canadian
universities, and has been a visiting professor or fellow in England, Ireland and Australia. Editor-in-Chief of the
five-volume Encyclopedia of War, he is also Joint Editor of the longstanding Seminar Studies in History series. 						

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