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May 6, 2024 · July 12, 2018 - The map of Europe underwent drastic revision after World War I. The defeated Central Powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey – suffered huge territorial losses, and new independent countries were born, from Finland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south. The military hostilities of World War I ceased with an armistice ...
1 day ago · Berlin 1914-1919. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN: 9780521571715; 638pp.; Price: £60.00. Professor Anthony Sutcliffe, review of Capital Cities at War: Paris. London. Berlin 1914-1919, (review no. 36) Comparative history lives more in the ambition than in the execution - or it did. The title of this impressive volume alone ...
6 days ago · This map illustrates European borders prior to the start of WWI in 1914 with black lines and new states formed by the First World War in red.
May 15, 2024 · Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890-1914. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001; 251pp. The aim of Roderick McLean's book is to assert the continuing importance of monarchs in European politics in the decades immediately before 1914. His choice of diplomacy as the sphere in which to test this proposition is of course "unfair", since of ...
May 4, 2024 · Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward ...
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3 days ago · Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. The system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles through Berlin and extended a further 75 miles around West Berlin.
2 days ago · July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914 Thomas Otte Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107064904; 555pp.;Price: £21.25
