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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
I am currently reading Margaret MacMillan's 'The War that Ended Peace' and she is an excellent researcher and writer. (I previously read her 'Peacemakers' and by golly she puts across a zillion facts but she adds humour and the who's up who and who's paying the rent factor as well!
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Finished the book and found it to be very similar in style to MacMillan's Peacemakers - a zillion facts, lots of other interesting tid bits and person pictures of the main players from all involved countries as well as peripherally involved countries.
It's a heavy reading book (as you might imagine) but one that I am glad that I read because the way that MacMillan covers the 'story' is inclusive of so many and varied intrigues and posturing that the how and the why of the final decision to go to war is made so much clearer. That doesn't mean I agree that war was the solution, far from it, but how the players reached that conclusion is clearer (and high on my list of reasons is vanity and 'honour').