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In 1914 Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation- what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men and women during the first months of strife. He finds the evidence overwhelming that Austria and Germany must accept principal blame for the outbreak. While what followed was a vast tragedy he argues passionately against the 'poets' view' that the war was not worth winning. It was vital to the freedom of Europe he says that the Kaiser's Germany should be defeated. His narrative of the early battles will astonish those whose images of the war are simply of mud wire trenches and steel helmets. Hastings describes how the French Army marched into action amid virgin rural landscapes in uniforms of red and blue led by mounted officers with flags flying and bands playing. The bloodiest day of the entire Western war fell on 22 August 1914 when the French lost 27000 dead. Four days later at Le Cateau the British fought an extraordinary action against the oncoming Germans one of the last of its kind in history. In October at terrible cost they held the allied line against massive German assaults in the first battle of Ypres. The author also describes the brutal struggles in Serbia East Prussia and Galicia where by Christmas the Germans Austrians Russians and Serbs had inflicted on each other three million casualties. This book offers answers to the huge and fascinating question 'what happened to Europe in 1914?' through Max Hastings's accustomed blend of top-down and bottom-up accounts from a multitude of statesmen and generals peasants housewives and private soldiers of seven nations. His narrative pricks myths and offers some striking and controversial judgements. For a host of readers gripped by the author's last international best-seller All Hell Let Loose this will seem a worthy successor.About the AuthorSir Max Hastings is the author of twenty-five books many of them about war. He was educated at Charterhouse and University College Oxford which he quit after a year to become a journalist. Thereafter he reported for newspapers and BBC TV from sixty-four countries and eleven conflicts notably the 1973 Arab-Israeli War Vietnam and the 1982 Battle for the Falklands. Between 1986 and 2002 he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and for his books most recently the 2012 Chicago Pritzker Library's $100000 literary award for his contribution to military history and the RUSI's Westminster Medal for his international best-seller 'All Hell Let Loose'.Date Published 12th September 2013

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