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  Published
2004
  
  David Stevenson’s widely acclaimed history of World War I changes forever our understanding
of that pivotal conflict. Countering the commonplace assumption that politicians lost control of events, and that the
war, once it began, quickly became an unstoppable machine, Stevenson contends that politicians deliberately took risks
that led to war in July 1914. Far from being overwhelmed by the unprecedented scale and brutality of the bloodshed,
political leaders on both sides remained very much in control of events throughout. According to Stevenson, the
disturbing reality is that the course of the war was the result of conscious choices—including the continued
acceptance of astronomical casualties. In fluid prose, Stevenson has written a definitive history of the man-made
catastrophe that left lasting scars on the twentieth century. Cataclysm is a truly international history, incorporating
new research on previously undisclosed records from governments in Europe and across the world. From the complex network
of secret treaties and alliances that eventually drew all of Europe into the war, through the bloodbaths of Gallipoli
and the Somme, to the arrival of American forces, and the massive political, economic, and cultural shifts the conflict
left in its wake, Cataclysm is a major revision of World War I history.
  
  
  From Publishers Weekly
  Although more treatise than narrative, and not for skimmers, this book should be on the shelf with the best of the
many books about WWI. A professor of international history at the London School of Economics and author of two earlier
books on that war, Stevenson analyzes the bankruptcy of reason that precipitated the war and kept it going. According to
Stevenson, some regimes saw, in the unifying effects of a popular war, cures for menacing internal turbulence, but, as
he shows, the war turned unpredictably on its makers in most nations. Stevenson's close analysis of the political,
economic and cultural dimensions of the conflict unravels the reasons why Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Italy,
Russia, France and even Britain saw much to gain from a war that each hoped to win in short order, with the help of
allies. But the irony of unanticipated outcomes derailed strategies, loyalties, ideals and even governments—which
lost control of events. "Nothing ever seen before," Stevenson writes, "compared with such massive concentrations of
firepower and of human suffering... and with such meagre results." The imposed postwar settlement contained "time bombs"
of political instability (such as Yugoslavia) that keep exploding even today. Stevenson is particularly critical of
American involvement, which, he says, pushed Germany toward surrender, but was also belated, inefficient, badly led and
(with respect to President Wilson) diplomatically unsophisticated in coping with European cynicism. Despite some
inconsistencies and contradictions, and its lack of a human dimension to the horror, Cataclysm is a major re-examination
of the shaping tragedy of the 20th century.
  
  From Booklist
  This history of World War I builds up
the present wave of books (Europe's Last Summer, by David Fromkin [BKL F 15 04]; The First World War, by Hew Strachan
[BKL Mr 15 04]) about the conflict. In contrast with many historians concerned with its military aspects, Stevenson is
occupied by its underlying political dynamic, and he concentrates specifically on the protraction of the war. It
bewilders expert historians as well as those who know no more about the war's stalemate than the pictures of its
shell-blasted battlefields. Stevenson endeavors to explain the war's immobility and number-numbing casualties through
the interaction of battlefield offensives, and of the naval war, with each participant's internal pro-war consensus and
external enunciation of war aims and peace proposals. The author's arguments are very fine in both senses of the word,
being intensely detailed and very persuasive, showing how the politics of defeat seemed worse, especially to the
Germans, than continuing to fight. A major work of scholarship, best understood with a prerequisite reading of The First
World War, by John Keegan (1999). Gilbert Taylor
  
  "Perhaps the best comprehensive one-volume history of
the war yet written." -- Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
  
  About the Author
  
  David Stevenson is
Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He is the author of numerous publications on this
subject, including The First World War and International Politics and The Outbreak of the First World War: 1914 in
Perspective. He lives in London. 						

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