Professor Margaret MacMillan on the War that Ended Peace

Margaret MacMillan has been quoted and interviewed on several occasions recently concerning her new book: 'The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War'.

In The Sunday Times (20 October), Dominic Sandbrook published a book review that began: Few historians have better credentials to write about the origins of the First World War than the Oxford scholar Margaret MacMillan. The full article can be read here (via paywall).

In Times Higher Education (24 October), Roger Morgan wrote a review which can be read here.

Margaret was interviewed about the book in the Toronto Star (25 October), an interview in which she describes the murky and random currents in European politics which brought about the conflict, adding that in history accident matters, and timing matters. This can be read here.

A feature also appeared in Macleans (27 October), that includes exclusive excerpts. This can be read here.

The November edition of Prospect magazine also features an article on the book, which it describes as ...a sweeping but immensely readable account.... This can be read here.

You can read more about The War that Ended Peace... by clicking here.

It is available to buy from Amazon.co.uk.

You can also see a clip of Margaret reading from her book by clicking here.