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![]() It says that, “there have been as many plagues as wars in history yet always wars and plagues take people equally by surprise” (p. On the page following the dedication a quote from Albert Camus’s (2001) The Plague can be found. In fact, MacMillan’s unfamiliar thinking is evident right from the opening pages. It is an historical narrative that paints a portrait of Europe at the time.Ĭrucially, this is not a book that argues there was a well-defined path inevitably leading to war in 1914. MacMillan’s book analyzes the years leading up to 1914 and the outbreak of the global conflict, including the conditions and human actions that led Europe from peace to war. Through her book, what we may have known about this global conflict becomes defamiliarized. However, reading Margaret MacMillan’s (2013) The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 might change that. ![]() As many countries around the world mark the centenary of the First World War, we (especially history teachers teaching the 20th century) might see the topic as all too familiar. ![]()
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