Writing in 1914, the American historian Herbert Adams Gibbons traces the quarrels that set Europe alight: Germany in Alsace-Lorraine, the Weltpolitik and the Baghdad railway, the Moroccan crises of Algeciras and Agadir, the carving up of Persia, Polish and Italian grievances, and the Balkan wars that brought the Ottoman Empire to the edge of collapse.
A vivid account of the war’s causes written while the war began, by an author who had lived in Constantinople and Paris. Download the free EPUB.