28 June

Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: The War and Peace That Made the Modern World
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-908323-75-0
Verlag: Haus Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Haus Publishing

On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's precipitousdescent into war. This war was the first conflict to be fought on a global scale. By its end in 1918, four empires had collapsed, and their minority populations, which had never before existed as independent entities, were encouraged to seek self-determination and nationhood.

Following on from Haus's monumental thirty-two Volume series on the signatories of the Versailles peace treaty, The Makers of the Modern World, 28 June looks in greater depth at the smaller nations that are often ignored in general histories, and in doing so seeks to understand the conflict from a global perspective, asking not only how each of the signatories came to join the conflict but also giving an overview of the long-term consequences of their having done so.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharp, Alan

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Sharp was Professor of International Studies and Provost of the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster. His teaching, research and writing has focused on 20th-century international history and British foreign policy after the First World War.