A Few WWI Books From the History in the Margins Archives
Just in case you missed them the first time around:
In The Lost History of 1914, NPR’s Jack Beatty takes on what he describes as the “cult of inevitability” surrounding the beginning of the war.
NPR’s Jack Beatty takes on what he describes as the “cult of inevitability” that surrounds historical accounts of the First World War. – See more at: http://dev.historyinthemargins.com/wp/2012/04/23/the-lost-history-of-1914/#sthash.Guxw7yO8.dpuf
NPR’s Jack Beatty takes on what he describes as the “cult of inevitability” that surrounds historical accounts of the First World War. – See more at: http://dev.historyinthemargins.com/wp/2012/04/23/the-lost-history-of-1914/#sthash.Guxw7yO8.dpuf
NPR’s Jack Beatty takes on what he describes as the “cult of inevitability” that surrounds historical accounts of the First World War. – See more at: http://dev.historyinthemargins.com/wp/2012/04/23/the-lost-history-of-1914/#sthash.Guxw7yO8.dpuf
NPR’s Jack Beatty takes on what he describes as the “cult of inevitability” that surrounds historical accounts of the First World War. – See more at: http://dev.historyinthemargins.com/wp/2012/04/23/the-lost-history-of-1914/#sthash.Guxw7yO8.dpuf
Who Made The Map Of The Modern Middle East? tells the story of how today’s Middle East was created from the remains of the Ottoman Empire during the peace negotiations are the end of the war.
Despite its title, The Making of the First World War: A Pivotal History by historian Ian F.W. Beckett is not another account of the events leading up to WWI. Instead Beckett is concerned with what he describes as “pivot points”: decisive moments that affected not only the course of the war but that of later history.