Macmillan tells this familiar story with panache. Germany in turn cultivated relations with a near-moribund Austria-Hungary. Britain responded by making “unlikely friends” with France and Russia. She begins by addressing Germany’s misfortune in having “a child for King” Wilhelm II sought to secure Germany’s-and his own-world power status by inaugurating a naval race with Britain.
She asks, “What made 1914 different?” and wonders why Europe “walk over the cliff” given the continent’s relatively longstanding peace. Macmillan, professor of international history at Oxford, follows her Paris 1919 with another richly textured narrative about WWI, this time addressing the war’s build-up.
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