The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began. Jack Beatty

The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began



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Publisher: Walker & Company
Language: English
Page: 400
ISBN: 0802778119, 9780802778116

Augmenting the literature on the origins of WWI, Beatty dwells on domestic political situations in the initial belligerents, plus the U.S. According to him, but for those particular arrangements and specific events, war might not have erupted in August 1914. In France, the murder of Le Figaro’s editor by the wife of Joseph Caillaux destroyed the latter’s possibility of becoming prime minister, in which post, Beatty infers, he would have resisted war. Likewise in Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, he posits, might have counseled peace despite the Serbian assassination of another official. Britain’s absorption in a prospective civil war in Ireland might have emboldened Germany, where the Junker caste held the upper hand over its liberal and socialist opposition after a political fracas in Alsace. As for Russia, Beatty covers the ascendance of ministers less worried by revolution than by German influence at Constantinople. A provocative discussion concerning internal affairs, though with limited linkage to the diplomatic contexts that actually detonated the war, Beatty’s work will appeal to readers attracted by history regarded from counterfactual perspectives. --Gilbert Taylor

The New Yorker

The Boston Globe

The New Statesman

Nashua Telegraph

The Associated Press

"THE LOST HISTORY OF 1914 brings alive much of the official world of a century ago."--Bruce Ramsey, Seattle Times

The Spectator

In These Times

"Spritely, captivating…[Beatty’s book] delivers his signature storyteller’s insights. Hardly any writer working today can amass such an enormous array of information and shape it all so effortlessly into paragraph after compelling paragraph. The centennial of World War I is bound to produce a tsunami of verbiage – and, if we’re lucky, some genuinely first-rate stuff. THE LOST HISTORY OF 1914…steals a march on all of them. Highly recommended."--Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

"THE LOST HISTORY OF 1914 will leave its mark on how we think about World War I and perhaps, beyond that, on how we think about history and history in the making."--Harvey Blume, The Arts Fuse



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