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©2013. | First edition. | St. Martin's Press | xxxvii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Biography 1 available B FRANZ FAMILY |
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In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its heart was a tragic love story. When Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand married for love against the wishes of the emperor, he and his wife Sophie were humiliated and shunned, yet they remained devoted to each other and to their children....
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[2013] | First American edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | xxxvii, 628 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 HASTI |
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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A history of the outbreak of World War I, from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches.
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2011. | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | 292 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 NEIBE |
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[1991] | First edition. | Random House | xxxi, 1, 007 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English |
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2005. | First Vintage Books edition. | Vintage Books | xi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 FROMK |
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Draws on current scholarship to argue that hostilities that led to World War I were started intentionally, describing the negotiations and personalities of key leaders that contributed to the failure of diplomatic efforts.
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[2010] | First American edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | xxv, 498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.3112 CARTE |
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2010 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II. During these years, Wilhelm, George, and Nicholas corresponded and wrote about each other in their diaries. The author uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell their tragicomic stories. This book the story of the self delusion of royalty: three monarchs, and their mistaken...
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[2013?] | Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group | xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 MCMEE |
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2013 | OverDrive | Basic Books | English | Available Online
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When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand’s own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, It is God’s will.” Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflictmuch less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally...
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2014. | Cambridge University Press | xxii, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 OTTE |
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This is a magisterial new account of Europe's tragic descent into a largely inadvertent war in the summer of 1914. Thomas Otte reveals why a century-old system of Great Power politics collapsed so disastrously in the weeks from the 'shot heard around the world' on June 28th to Germany's declaration of war on Russia on August 1st. He shows definitively that the key to understanding how and why Europe descended into world war is to be found in the near-collective...
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2006. | John Murray | xiii, 416 pages (16 pages plates) : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.3 CLAY |
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2012. | First u.s. edition. | Walker & Co | 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.3 BEATT |
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Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable.
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©2014. | First edition. | Oxford University Press | xxii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 MARTE |
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Dedicating a chapter to every day of July 1914, the author retraces the actions that led to World War I, beginning with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and following leaders of the time as they escalated the crisis.
12) Russian Origins Of The First World War
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2013, c2012. | First U.S. edition. | Harper | xxxi, 697 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 CLARK Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 CLARK |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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An authoritative chronicle, drawing on new research on World War I, traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute narrative that examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914.
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©2015. | First American edition. | Graphic Universe | 231 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm | English | Available
Westover - Teen Graphic Novels 1 available Y/GRAPH REHR |
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"Fictional account of the life of the young Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princep, who touched off World War I in 1914 by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand"--
This much we know: On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol into a stalled car carrying the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and pulled the trigger. Within a few minutes, the archduke was dead, and Europe would not know peace again for five...
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2015. | First U.S edition. | Thomas Dunne Books | 386 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Science Fiction 1 available SF ELTON |
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"In Time and Time Again, international best-selling author Ben Elton, takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-Century Europe. It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy...
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2014. | Grove Press | xxii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.311 BUTCH |
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"On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918 and proved fatal for empires and a way of ruling that had...
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©2013. | First U.S. edition. | Random House | xxxv, 739 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 3 available 940.311 MACMI |
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Presents a narrative portrait of Europe in the years leading up to World War I that illuminates the political, cultural, and economic factors and contributing personalities that shaped major events.
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2016. | Essential Library, an imprint of Adbo Publishing | 112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. | English |
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