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Authors: Margaret MacMillan

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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Maps

Introduction: War or Peace?

1. Europe in 1900

2. Great Britain and Splendid Isolation

3. ‘Woe to the country that has a child for King!’ Wilhelm II and Germany

4. Weltpolitik: Germany’s Place on the World Stage

5. Dreadnought: The Anglo-German Naval Rivalry

6. Unlikely Friends: The Entente Cordiale between France and Britain

7. The Bear and the Whale: Russia and Great Britain

8. The Loyalty of the Nibelungs: The Dual Alliance of Austria-Hungary and Germany

9. What Were They Thinking? Hopes, Fears, Ideas, and Unspoken Assumptions

10. Dreaming of Peace

11. Thinking about War

12. Making the Plans

13. The Crises Start: Germany, France and Morocco

14. The Bosnian Crisis: Confrontation between Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Balkans

15. 1911: The Year of Discords – Morocco Again

16. The First Balkan Wars

17. Preparing for War or Peace: Europe’s Last Months of Peace

18. Assassination at Sarajevo

19. The End of the Concert of Europe: Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia

20. Turning Out the Lights: Europe’s Last Week of Peace

Epilogue: The War

Acknowledgements

Notes

List of Illustrations

Bibliography

Index

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