Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Neiberg, WH) gettysburg magazine 352 wounded

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Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Neiberg, WH) gettysburg magazine 352 woundedThe common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael Neiberg shows that ordinary Europeans, unlike their political and military leaders, neither wanted nor expected war during the fateful summer of 1914. By training his eye on the