An arms race between germany and britain provoked the war. Instead, he describes a series of decisions made by heads of state that had a domino effect. This is about 50 minutes. Professor Sean Mcmeekin did his ph. D. At uc berkeley and he talked at many universities before beginning at professor of history of russian and eurasian studies at bard college in new york. Among his recent books are the russian origins of the First World War, july 1914, and the berlin baghdad express, the Ottoman Empire and germanys bid for world power. His research languages include russian, turkish, german and french. His talk today is the war of 1914, an avoidable catastrophe. Thank you for that kind introduction. Well see if i can get the clicker to work before we get going. There we are. Its true, i did one book with the german bid for world power in the title. I did another book called the russian origins of the First World War. Some people have been a bit confused by this. I blame the russians in one b
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We lived in theman old large home outside of town, with a huge garden with many fruit trees and flowers and wonderful things for children to roam in. I had 10 cats. I knew all their names and now my children and my grandchildren like me to recite the names of my cats and my brothers two dogs. I used to love swimming in summer and skiing in winter. By and large, i think i had a marvelous childhood. Interviewer what about school . Klein i went to Public School first but only until the war broke out and then to Catholic School because it was a private girls school. We have a rabbi coming by giving us jewish instruction, about a quarter of the girls in my class were jewish. And that was a thing to do. I really liked school very much, even though i pretended i didnt. Of course, when the war came that was the end of my formal education. Interviewer tell us what happened when the war broke out. Klein well, i guess the danger signals were flying very high in the summer of 1939. By and large, i
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