Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 672 Language: English A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914.1914: a year of unparalleled change The year that diplomacy failed. Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and. white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine-guns What followed were the costliest days of the entire War But how had it happenedIn Catastrophe:.. 1914 Max Hastings. best-selling author of the acclaimed All Hell Let Loose. answers at last how World War I could ever have begun Ranging across Europe. from Paris to St Petersberg. from Kings to corporals. Catastrophe 1914 traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles;.. not the stalemates of later trench-warfare but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a ...