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****NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY** **__The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and Mail__****From the bestselling and award-winning author of __Paris 1919__ comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. __The War That Ended Peace__ brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned headsacross Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary,

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Author

Margaret Olwen Macmillan

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846682728

Category

history

Subjects

Western, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

4.19 / 5 (2,917 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14