Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World Without World War I

Richard Ned Lebow (Get this book)
An alternate history of how the world would have emerged if World War I had not occurred. World War I brought devastation on the 20th century, mowing down an entire generation of young men, dismantling empires, introducing ethnic cleansing, disease, revolution and civil war, and, ultimately, sowing the rotten global political and economic yield that gave rise to Adolf Hitler. Yet seasoned political scientist Lebow reminds us that WWI was entirely avoidable and indeed reluctantly embarked upon by the prevailing powers. Astute, challenging exercises in consequence and contingency.--Kirkus