Review of Norman Stone’s World War I: A Short History
In a world in which it appears that few people have any meaningful understanding of history beyond what is immediately presented to them (and presented almost inevitably through the mediation of ideology), it is not surprising that knowledge of the causes and effects of World War One is so limited. Yet that history is increasingly important in the modern world where it once again seems that new forms of imperial expansion are set to come into conflict with each other. It was imperial rivalry that brought about the war and the global nature of that rivalry meant that its effects spread all around the world with all of their baleful intensity intact.
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