JULY 1914: COUNTDOWN TO WAR

Book ID/图书代码： 00530013B59762

English Summary/英文概要： When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand’s own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, “It is God’s will.” Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict—much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events.

As acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been for a small group of statesmen who, in the month after the assassination, plotted to use Ferdinand’s murder as the trigger for a long-awaited showdown in Europe. The primary culprits, moreover, have long escaped blame. While most accounts of the war’s outbreak place the bulk of responsibility on German and Austro-Hungarian militarism, McMeekin draws on surprising new evidence from archives across Europe to show that the worst offenders were actually to be found in Russia and France, whose belligerence and duplicity ensured that war was inevitable.

Whether they plotted for war or rode the whirlwind nearly blind, each of the men involved—from Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold von Berchtold and German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov and French president Raymond Poincaré—sought to capitalize on the fallout from Ferdinand’s murder, unwittingly leading Europe toward the greatest cataclysm it had ever seen.

A revolutionary account of the genesis of World War I, July 1914 tells the gripping story of Europe’s countdown to war from the bloody opening act on June 28th to Britain’s final plunge on August 4th, showing how a single month—and a handful of men—changed the course of the twentieth century.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1914年6月下旬，一个塞尔维亚背景的刺客枪杀了Archduke Franz Ferdinand，但世界似乎无动于衷。即使是Ferdinand自己的叔叔，Franz Josef I，哈布斯堡王朝继承人的死亡特别明显的矛头，简单的说，“这是天意。 ”当然，没有任何迹象表明这一事件会导致一场世界战争——如此大的规模和可怕的从根本上改变人类活动的过程。

作为著名的历史学家Sean McMeekin揭示了1914年7月，一战可能可以完全避免。如果不是一小群的政治家在暗杀的那个月策划利用费迪南德的谋杀案触发了蓄谋已久的欧洲的对决。而主要元凶却老早就逃避责任。虽然大多数人认为战争的爆发将大部分的责任归到德国和奥匈帝国军国主义，McMeekin利用令人惊讶的来自欧洲各地档案的新证据，以表明实际最严重的罪犯是俄罗斯和法国，其好战性和口是心非使得战争是不可避免的。

无论他们是否策划战争或几近盲目的叱咤风云。从奥地利外交部长利Leopold von Berchtold和德国总理Bethmann Hollweg到俄罗斯外交部部长Sergei Sazonov和法国总统Raymond Poincaré，涉及到的每一个人都试图利用费迪南德的谋杀后果，在不知不觉中导致欧洲向它曾经见过的最大的大灾难。

一个革命性的关于1914年7月的创世纪的第一次世界大战讲诉了扣人心弦的故事，欧洲的倒计时从6月28日血腥的战争开始到8月4日英国最终倒下，展示了极少数人用一个个月的时间改变了二十世纪的过程。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：Michael Neiberg，《血液中的的自由人》的作者Sean McMeekin向我们展示了一个有意思的，快节奏的关于一些20世纪最重要的外交和军事决策的说明。他描绘了在决定命运的夏天里指挥战争的欧洲领导人的冷漠的，清晰的困惑，无能和鲁莽。任何对我们今天居住的世界了解的人肯定会开始对1914年7月发生的事件进行审查。McMeekin为读者提供了关于诞生现代社会的事件的一个详细但公平的分析。”

James Sheehan《所有的士兵都去哪里了？：现代欧洲的转变》 这是一个精心研制的，生动描绘了导致1914年7月的战争的重组决定。McMeekin捕捉了这重大的一个月中的人类戏剧性，并提供一个对不同参与者的道德责任的挑衅性评估。”

Charles Hill，耶鲁大学的住校外交官，胡佛研究所的研究员，《一千多年的试验：世界秩序和伊斯兰教》的作者。赢家写历史，所以会被误解。Sean McMeekin需要获得更广泛的立场来得到新鲜的视觉角度关于伟大的战争，并开创了所有战争的一个新学说。 ”

Kirkus评论，主演审核“一个完全有益的关于国家不遗余力造成第一次世界大战原因解释... Kirkus传递了一个扣人心弦的，大多是不希望战争的欧洲政治领导人几乎每天的日益疯狂的军事演习。”

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• Michael Neiberg, author of The Blood of Free Men
"Sean McMeekin has given us a riveting and fast-paced account of some of the most important diplomatic and military decisions of the 20th century. He depicts with chilling clarity the confusion, the incompetence, and the recklessness with which Europe’s leaders went to war in that fateful summer. Any understanding of the world we inhabit today must begin with an examination of the events of July 1914. McMeekin provides his readers with a balanced and detailed analysis of the events that gave birth to the modern age."

• James Sheehan, author of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe
"This is a meticulously researched and vividly written reconstruction of the decisions that lead to war in July 1914. McMeekin captures the human drama of this fateful month and offers a provocative assessment of the different players’ moral responsibility."

• Charles Hill, Diplomat in Residence at Yale University, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism

"Winners write the histories, so wars are misunderstood. Sean McMeekin takes a wider stance to get a fresh angle of vision on The Great War, and casts all war-making in a new light."

• Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"[A] thoroughly rewarding account that spares no nation regarding the causes of World War I.... McMeekin delivers a gripping, almost day-by-day chronicle of the increasingly frantic maneuvers of European civilian leaders who mostly didn’t want war and military leaders who had less objection."

About the Author/作者介绍： Sean McMeekin是Koç大学历史系副教授,是四本被高度认可著作的作者,包括<一战的俄国缘起>,荣获一战历史协会的Tomlinson奖,<柏林到巴格达的快线>荣获斯拉夫,东欧和亚欧研究学会的Barbara Jelavich书籍奖.定居土耳其的伊斯坦布尔。

Sean McMeekin is an assistant professor of history at Koç University. He is the author of four highly acclaimed books, including The Russian Origins of the First World War, which won the World War One Historical Association’s Tomlinson Prize, and The Berlin to Baghdad Express, which won the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies’ Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. McMeekin lives in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：USA: Basic UK: Icon China: Xinhua Publishing House,Beijing Paper Jump Cultural Development Company Ltd(now Simplified Chinese rights is available) Germany: Europa Verlag Croatia: Algoritam Czech Republic: CPress Turkey: Yapı Kredi

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