Old Europe's Suicide; or, The Building of a Pyramid of Errors / An Account of Certain Events in Europe During the Period 1912–1919
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A former brigadier-general and eyewitness offers a retrospective of European events from 1912 to 1919, beginning with the Balkan conflicts and ending with the Paris peace negotiations. He traces how rival imperial ambitions, secret intrigues, and diplomatic inertia turned a local war into a continental conflagration, contends that autocratic Central Empires undermined themselves through militarism and reckless policy, and argues that the postwar settlement perpetuated earlier mistakes rather than establishing a stable order. The account blends descriptive narrative of campaigns and diplomacy with a moral appeal for progressive statesmanship and nonmilitary remedies to heal the continent’s fractured politics.
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