Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914
by Hastings, Max.
Material type: BookPublisher: William Collins 2013ISBN: 9780007398577; 0007398573.Classification number: 940.311 HASSubject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes | World War, 1914-1918Subject: In 'Catastrophe', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St. Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalements of later trench-warfare but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 940.311 HAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002845761X | |||
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940.311 BEA The lost history of 1914: how the Great War was not inevitable | 940.311 DAR The origins of the First World War | 940.311 HAS Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914 | 940.311 HAS Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914 | 940.311 MAS Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the coming of the Great War | 940.3112 HAW Englanders and Huns | 940.316 NOT Not our war: writings against the First World War |
Includes bibliographical references and index
In 'Catastrophe', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St. Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalements of later trench-warfare but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age.
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