As the 100th anniversary of World War I approaches, historian Margaret MacMillan compares current global tensions—rising nationalism, globalization's economic pressures, sectarian strife, and the United States' fading role as the world's pre-eminent superpower—to the period preceding the Great War. In illuminating the years before 1914, MacMillan shows the many parallels between then and now, telling an urgent story for our time.

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• The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War
• The Uses and Abuses of History
• The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century
• Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
• Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 (General Military)