The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
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The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War

Originally posted on Singapore Review of Books:
When Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek arrived at Sarajevo train station on the morning of 28 June 1914, Europe was still at peace. If any of the key European statesmen of that era had been asked whether they thought a major European conflagration was likely in the near…