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Era inevitabile la Grande Guerra? Dall'assassinio dell'arciduca Francesco Ferdinando a Sarajevo doveva necessariamente scaturire un conflitto mondiale? O si è trattato di una guerra "improbabile", scoppiata per una serie di malintesi e di errori di valutazione? Rusconi ricostruisce il febbrile lavorio politico-diplomatico del luglio 1914 e analizza le vicende belliche sino alla battaglia cruciale della Marna. Il conflitto si configura come una "guerra tedesca" per rompere l'accerchiamento di cui la Germania si sente vittima da parte dell'Intesa russo-francese e inglese.

Questa solida sintesi della Grande Guerra è frutto del lavoro di due storici diversi ma affini: l'uno, Rochat, esperto della dimensione prettamente militare; l'altro, Isnenghi, versato nella storia della cultura e degli intellettuali. Il volume intreccia così felicemente due filoni di studio per raccontare vicende politiche e culturali ma anche operazioni militari, ideologie e sogni ma anche cifre e fatti: il racconto stringente di come la guerra fu voluta e non voluta, condotta e contestata, maledetta e ricordata, di quale ruolo vi giocarono le forze politiche.

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In 1914 the world changed. Europe’s great powers were dragged, one by one, into a war by Serbian conflict which affected very few of them directly. At least it would resemble the short sharp battles of the previous century, many thought...

When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand’s own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God’s will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflictmuch less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events.

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period...

A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much selfless courage - all culminating in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres. And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth.

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expose of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front - a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever.

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression" or "a crime and a disaster."

Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by - yet also defeated by - warfare in the modern age, that struggled to capitalize on its victories, and ultimately forgot the lessons of its defeat.

A hundred years after World War I, new accounts of the drama help listeners navigate the intricacies of European politics and the political and diplomatic maneuverings that kicked off the war. Yet there is still no consensus on its origins or lessons.