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The War That Ended Peace : How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War.

The War That Ended Peace : How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War. Hardcover - 2013

by Macmillan, Margaret

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London: Profile Books Ltd, 2013. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or rubbed or creased with minor traces of storage. 699pp. The author gives a comprehensive account of how a peaceful continent descended into chaos that was far from inevitable. She begins in the late 19th century and ends with the assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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Margaret MacMillan received her PhD from Oxford University and is now a professor of international history at Oxford, where she is also the warden of St. Antony's College. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; a senior fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto; and an honorary fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto, and of St Hilda's College, Oxford University. She sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and on the editorial boards of "The International History Review" and "First World War Studies." She also sits on the advisory board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation and is a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust. Her previous books include "Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World, Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India," and "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, " which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize and was a "New York Times" Editors' Choice.