The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War, 1914

Author: Douglas Newton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Darkest Days shows how the war-hungry leaders and the right-wing press hustled the nation into war, making only the barest efforts to save the peace. As a result the declaration was the result of political negotiation, dishonesty and willful belligerence that split the cabinet and kept the opposition and the nation itself in the dark until it was too late. Through a forensic study of the personal papers of many...Read more