exciting 185

This book is really exciting and allows us to discover the changeover to the war from different points of view, Serbian, Austrian, German, Russian, French, English. For once, we discover a nuanced approach and measure a little better the deep and fatal logic that led to the disaster. The author shows us through the sequence of events that the war was not an inevitable outcome, but the protagonists of the summer 14 have indeed advanced as somnanbules, playing strong positions in thinking that opponent would give first, as they have done in previous crises (1905 and Agadir Balkans 1912-1913).

I personally have a small and a big regret reading this book,

A little regret about the chronology of events: a brief chronology even help reading, because the presentation by theme or perspective (English, French, Russian, etc.) did make went back and in this chronology, that it is therefore necessary to have well in mind,

A big regret for the French translation. The translation is fluid and borrows too much current vocabulary: leader, hawks-German, anti-Russian, etc.
It's unpleasant and gives the impression of reading a bad newspaper article. Too bad it's so much fun to play this kind of work in a correct French!

Here, two regrets but do not measure the quality of this book that I highly recommend.