A great and very readable account of the events leading up to and early part of WWI. The book starts out with a royal funeral and hooks you right away with personal details of the royal attendees and their relationships to one another. The high school history class accounts of this war leave out a whole lot of intrigues and information about how it was almost a very short war. Had the German generals stuck with their original plan, things could have turned out quite differently. Of course there is no telling what the world would be like today had the war turned out differently but it is a topic that gives you something to think about.
Thanks to Andrew the leader of our "Readings in History" book group for this title.
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