The twelve days : 24 July to 4 August 1914 / George Malcolm Thomson.
TITLE:
The twelve days : 24 July to 4 August 1914 / George Malcolm Thomson.
Publication Date:
1964
Publication Information:
London : Hutchinson of London,
Physical Description:
227 p. : ill., map.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliography and index.
Summary:
On July 24, 1914—twenty-six days after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand—the Austrian government delivered its long delayed ultimatum to the Serbs. From that day to the British declaration of war on August 4, the decisions were taken, the blunders were made, and in the end there was no escaping the war that changed the course of history. In this dramatic account of the twelve days preceding the outbreak of war, George Malcolm Thomson brilliantly shows how a tangle of apparently unrelated strands—political and diplomatic maneuvers, private frustrations and ambitions, quirks of personality among Europe's leading figures, ironies of circumstance—combined to produce completely unsought consequences.
Language:
English
