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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

by Margaret MacMillan

Random. Oct. 2013. 784p. photos. maps. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781400068555. $35.

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A prize-winning historian's exhaustive take on why the war happened when peace might have prevailed. (LJ 10/15/13)

Reviewed by Edwin B. Burgess, Margaret Heilbrun , Nov 01, 2013

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