The Pity of War
Subtitle: Explaining World War I
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: March 10, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780465057122
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.