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Catastrophe 1914 traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles

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Max Hastings: CATASTROPHE TPB Z49 [2013] paperback Condition:Very Good and will ask you theThe Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. 1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine guns. What followed