Dance of the furies : Europe and the outbreak of World War I /
Neiberg marshals letters, diaries and memoirs of ordinary citizens across Europe to show that the onset of war was experienced as a sudden, unexpected event. As they watched a minor diplomatic crisis erupt into a continental bloodbath, they expressed shock, revulsion and fear. But when bargains betw...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- A clap of thunder in the summer sky
- Background to Sarajevo, 1905-1914
- The delivery of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum
- Drifting into war against her will
- The coming of a great storm
- Our families will be their victims
- Hardening attitudes
- An evil dance of the furies.