Saturday marked one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In hindsight, the assassination clearly marks the beginning of the process ...
JULY 1914: COUNTDOWN TO WAR By Sean McMeekin Basic Books, $29.99, 480 pages THE SLEEPWALKERS: HOW EUROPE WENT TO WAR IN 1914 By Christopher Clark Harper, $29.99, 736 pages These two books, which can ...
The lights of nineteenth-century liberalism that Lord Grey saw going out all over Europe on the night of August 3, 1914, dimmed and sputtered toward extinction during the years of furious war that ...