The Pity of War
Subtitle: Explaining World War I (Allen Lane History)
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780713992465
Subjects: European history: First World War; World history: First World War; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy
First sentence: It is often asserted that the First World War was caused by culture: to be precise, the culture of militarism, which is said to have prepared men so well for what they yearned for it.