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1914 The Year The World Ended (Paperback)
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1914 The Year The World Ended (Paperback)
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Loot Price R425
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In this searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World
War, Paul Ham argues that European leaders did not 'sleepwalk' into
war, but that they fully accepted and understood the consequences
of the decisions they were making. In August 1914, the European
powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37
million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient
political systems and set the world on course for the bloodiest
century in human history. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of
that terrible year, Ham takes the reader on a journey into the
labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the
flawed and disturbed minds that drove the world to war. What
emerges is a clear sense of what happened and why. 'To understand
the past,' Ham concludes, 'and share that understanding, is the
chief role of the historian. To understand the past is to liberate
ourselves from its awful shadow and steel ourselves against it
happening again.'
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