The Lost History of 1914 : How the Great War Was Not Inevitable Crossway Books and above all the octopus

and above all the octopus

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The Lost History of 1914 : How the Great War Was Not Inevitable Crossway Books and above all the octopusIn The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. "This one maps the multiple paths that led away from it."Chronicling largely forgotten events faced by each of the belligerent countries in the months before the war started in August, Beatty shows how any one of