The nature of the causes of World War I have often been debated among historians. Steph Pook adds to the argument with her unique and fresh essay analysing the paradoxical and entangled origins of the war.
AUTHOR STEPH POOK
Military history has traditionally, and continues to, have something of a poor reputation in academic circles. It seems beyond dispute that the field is the subject of much sneering at the intellectually lightweight… Continue reading
‘Battle of Poltava’, Pierre-Denis Martin, 1726, oil on canvas (size unknown) Charles XII of Sweden, who pulled the country into the disastrous Great Northern War at the age of only eighteen, is the… Continue reading
