The US Library of Congress has selected Centenary News to be archived as part of the Library’s collection of websites marking the Centenary of the First World War.
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Australia and Canada to mark First World War Centenary
Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has announced that his country and Canada will co-operate to mark the Centenary of the First World War.
Continue readingNational Trust launches walks of remembrance to mark First World War Centenary at historic UK sites
The National Trust invites people to mark the First World War Centenary by joining silent walks of remembrance at 23 historic sites in England and Wales.
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First World War veteran moved into place for new RAF Museum exhibition in London
One of the most famous fighters of the First World War, a Sopwith Camel, has been moved to a building at the RAF Museum in London dedicated to a new exhibition about the growth of air power.
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1914: The Year the World Ended
Publisher’s Description: “In 1914: The Year the World Ended, award-winning historian Paul Ham tells the story of the outbreak of the Great War from German, British, French, Austria-Hungarian, Russian and Serbian perspectives.Along the way, he debunks several stubborn myths”.
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One Morning in Sarajevo
Publisher’s Description: “One Morning In Sarajevo reconstructs the last days of the imperial powers on the brink of the great war. Here is the story of the poor Bosnian students who set out to strike a blow for Serbia and inadvertently started that war. Smith has returned to the original sources and found the few surviving witnesses to those far-off times”.
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Book Review – The Month that Changed the World: July 1914
Publisher’s Description: “Martel goes back to the contemporary diplomatic, military, & political records to investigate the twists & turns of the crisis afresh, with the aim of establishing just how the catastrophe really unfurled”.Centenary News Review: “This book is especially good at highlighting the political disarray of the Triple Alliance from the assassinations in Sarajevo to the first few days of August 1914”.
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Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I
Publisher’s Description: “In a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael S. Neiberg shows that ordinary Europeans, unlike their political and military leaders, neither wanted nor expected war during the fateful summer of 1914”.
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Book Review – July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War
Publisher’s Description: “Otte shows definitively the key to understanding how & why Europe descended into war is to be found in the near-collective failure of statecraft in Europe, not in abstract concepts such as the ‘balance of power'”.Centenary News Review: “An outstanding book. Certainly, as measured by the number of bookmarks I made “I didn’t know that”, “that’s interesting”, “I must read that again”… it warrants that description”.
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The Assassination of the Archduke
Publisher’s Description: “In The Assassination of the Archduke, Greg King and Sue Woolmans offer readers a vivid account of the lives – and cruel deaths – of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved Sophie. Combining royal biography, romance, and political assassination, the story unfolds against a backdrop of glittering privilege and an Imperial Court consumed with hatred”.
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