- Bib ID:
- 6811905
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gardner, Hall, author
- Description:
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- Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2015]
- viii, 285 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781472430564 (hardback)
- 1472430565 (hardback)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781472430571 (ebook-pdf)
- 9781472430588 (ebook-epub)
- Series:
- Military strategy and operational art.
- Full contents:
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- The insecurity-security dialectic and the unexpected armageddon
- Origins of the Franco-Prussian War
- Global consequences of the Franco-Prussian War
- French calls for revanche and Bismarck's nightmare of coalitions
- Britain's intervention in Egypt and the threat of a continental alliance
- Bismarck's strategy and Anglo-German Alliance talks
- The failure of the Caprivi's "new course"
- 1894: the year of German alienation from England
- Fissures within the continental alliance
- The failure of Anglo-German alliance talks
- Britain's quest for new allies (1902-07)
- The Anglo-German détente and Eurasian conflicts
- The question of Alsace-Lorraine
- Stumbling into Armageddon
- Conclusions: the failure to prevent World War I.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes
- Copyright:
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