In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unleashed the war through policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East.


Format Häftad Omfång 344 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2013-05-06 ISBN 9780674072336