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Hardback. Condition: Good. Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss. …

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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. Brooklyn. 2012. January 2012. Berghahn Books. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780857453105. 380 pages. paperback. keywords: History World War I. DESCRIPTION - The First World War has been described as the 'primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century.' Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of 'inevitability.' inventory #41813.…

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paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine condition, essentially like new BUT with mild fold mark on top rear corner of cover and last few pages. AFFLERBACH, HOLGER / STEVENSON, D., ed. . An improbable war?: the outbreak of World War I and European political culture before 1914. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012, xiv, 365pp., . "The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism, and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the "long 19th century," the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability." - CONTENTS: pt. I: European statescraft and the question of war and peace before 1914. Stealing horses to great applause : Austria-Hungary's decision in 1914 in systemic perspective / Paul Schroeder -- Did norms matter in nineteenth century international relations? Progress and decline in the 'culture of peace' before World War I / Matthias Schulz -- Aggressive and defensive aims of political elites? Austro-Hungarian policy in 1914 / Samuel Williamson Jr. -- The curious case of the Kaiser's disappearing war guilt : Wilhelm II in July 1914 / John Röhl -- pt. II: The military situation before 1914 : Europe between hot and cold war. Chances and limits of armament control 1898-1914 / Jost Dülffer -- Was a peaceful outcome thinkable? The naval race before 1914 / Michael Epkenhans -- Was a peaceful solution thinkable? The European land armaments race before 1914 / David Stevenson -- The German and Austro-Hungarian general staffs and their reflections on an "impossible" war / Gunther Kronenbitter -- pt. III: Hopes and fears of war and peace : subjective expectations and unspoken assumptions in European societies before 1914. The topos of improbable war in Europe before 1914 / Holger Afflerbach -- Unfought war : the effect of détente before World War I / Friedrich Kiessling -- "War enthusiasm?" Public opinion and the outbreak of war in 1914 / Roger Chickering -- Education for war, peace, and patriotism in Russia on the eve of World War I / Joshua A. Sanborn -- pt. IV: Culture, gender, religiosity and the coming of war. Honor, gender and power : the politics of satisfaction in pre-war Europe / Ute Frevert -- International solidarity in European and North American protestantism before 1914 and after / Hartmut Lehmann -- International relations, arts, and culture before 1914 / Jessica Gienow-Hecht -- pt. V: The perspective from afar : the outbreak of war in Europe in the eyes of other continents. War as the savior? Hopes for war and peace in Ottoman politics before 1914 / Mustafa Aksakal -- The view from Japan : war and peace in Europe around 1914 / Frederick Dickinson -- War, peace and commerce : the American reaction to the outbreak of World War I in Europe / Fraser Harbutt. ISBN 9780857453105.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. New. Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss. …

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