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|title=The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War

|sort=War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War, The

|publisher=Profile

|date=October 2013

|summary=A searching account of the years 1900 to 1914 in Europe, and of events in every major European power, which led up to the outbreak of the First World War

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One could argue that the main title of this book is slightly questionable. Throughout the half-century or so before the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, Europe had rarely been free from conflict, with the Franco-Prussian, Graeco-Turkish and Balkan wars for a start. Nevertheless, the majority of the continent was at peace with itself and most of its neighbours during this period.

[[The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war by Peter Englund]]

For a more detailed account of the final event which precipitated the conflict:

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