The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Prelude to War The Long Term Causes of The War
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848 - 1918
by A.J.P Taylor
ISBN
Purchase Price
£17.50 (second hand)
Date Purchased
November 12, 2023
Publisher
Oxford University Press (1954, Oxford)
Notes
This is an extraordinarily comprehensive history of the background leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, written by one of the Twentieth Century's most famous modern historians. Whilst there are various different views about Taylor nowadays, this is a genuinely helpful study of what Taylor called "the European Balance of Power", which he proposed subsisted right through the period covered by the book, but then failed to survive the war. The book may be vintage, but it is still a valuable one for the Collection to have.
Purchase Price
£17.50 (second hand)
Date Purchased
November 12, 2023
Publisher
Oxford University Press (1954, Oxford)
Notes
This is an extraordinarily comprehensive history of the background leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, written by one of the Twentieth Century's most famous modern historians. Whilst there are various different views about Taylor nowadays, this is a genuinely helpful study of what Taylor called "the European Balance of Power", which he proposed subsisted right through the period covered by the book, but then failed to survive the war. The book may be vintage, but it is still a valuable one for the Collection to have.