03071cmm a2200349 4500 157508778 TxAuBib 20140213120000.0 130408s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780465056996 electronic bk. 0465056997 electronic bk. N$T N$T YDXCP EBLCP MHW TEFOD OCLCF PWDCT TxAuBib McMeekin, Sean, 1974- July 1914 [electronic resource] : countdown to war / Sean McMeekin. New York : Basic Books, 2013. 1 online resource (xviii, 461 p.) : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-443) and index. Sarajevo : Sunday, 28 June 1914 -- Reactions. Vienna : anger, not sympathy ; St. Petersburg : no quarter given ; Paris and London : unwelcome interruption ; Berlin : sympathy and impatience -- Countdown. The Count Hoyos mission to Berlin : Sunday-Monday, 5-6 July ; War council in Vienna (I) : Tuesday, 7 July ; Radio silence : 8-17 July ; Enter Sazonov : Saturday, 18 July ; War council in Vienna (II) : Sunday, 19 July ; Poincaré meets the Tsar : Monday, 20 July ; Sazonov's threat : Tuesday, 21 July ; Champagne summit : Wednesday-Thursday, 22-23 July ; Anti-ultimatum and ultimatum : Thursday, 23 July ; Sazonov strikes : Friday, 24 July ; Russia, France, and Serbia stand firm : Saturday, 25 July ; Russia prepares for war : Sunday, 26 July ; The Kaiser returns : Monday, 27 July ; "You have got me into a fine mess" : Tuesday, 28 July ; "O will not be responsible for a monstrous slaughter!" : Wednesday, 29 July ; Slaughter it is : Thursday, 30 July ; Last Chance Saloon : Friday, 31 July ; "Now you can do what you want" : Saturday, 1 August ; Britain wakes up to the danger : Sunday, 2 August ; Sir Edward Grey's big moment : Monday, 3 August ; World war : no going back : Tuesday, 4 August -- The question of responsibility. 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 conflict?much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events.As acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been fo. World War (1914-1918.) 1914 - 1918. World War, 1914-1918 Causes. HISTORY / Military / World War I. War Causes. Europe History July Crisis, 1914. Europe. Electronic books. History. McMeekin, Sean. https://pwdl.overdrive.com/media/06A786B0-2880-4434-A440-9703F695B5D0 http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/%7B06A786B0-2880-4434-A440-9703F695B5D0%7DImg100.jpg TXEUL