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Article: The Outbreak of the First World War.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2007
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The Outbreak of the First World War. By Hew Strachan. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 299. $15.95.)
For more than two decades James Joll's book, The Origins of the First World War [1984], has remained the only compact, readable, and wide-ranging study of the origins of the war of 1914-1918. Hew Strachan's study bids to replace it. Strachan's three-part work begins with an examination of the European powers' role in the origins focusing on Germany and Austria-Hungary, then proceeds to explain why Europeans went willingly to war, and concludes with the "big" ideas of a struggle of civilization and culture at stake in 1914.
Strachan ...