Anticipating the centenary of World War I, a brilliant new history of the year it began - 'a year forever memorable' (Woodrow Wilson) - that examines the war and its causes through new eyes.
Jack Beatty great up listening to his father's memories of serving in WWI as a sailor on a ship torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay. He is a news analyst for "On Point," the public affairs program on National Public Radio, and the author of The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, and Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900. He lives in New Hampshire.
Interesting and wide-ranging material ... a generous, stimulating
book
*Spectator*
[A] rich, textural context that allows us to see the war, and
indeed all of 1914, fresh ... Beatty's book is an important
contribution to our comprehension of a world bathed in misfortune
and headed toward the senseless slaughter of nearly 20 million
people
*Boston Globe*
Thought-provoking, and often mordantly ironic
*New Yorker*
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