But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire.
This work presents a narrative portrait of Europe in the years leading up to World War I that illuminates the political, cultural, and economic factors and contributing personalities that shaped major eventsįrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.
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