Product Description
A paperback reprint 1981, originally 1965, from the author of the bestselling Guns of August . '
Examines Western society in the decades leading up to WW1 - looking at societies in France, Britain, Germany and the USA, as well as mass movements such as socialism and udnerground reactionary movements such as Anarchism, and the role that the Hague Peace Conferences played in anera incraesingly worried about the rise of new and deadlier weapons.