A review by rbkegley
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings

3.0

I enjoyed it, but you have to like 550+ pages about the lead-up to World War I and the first months of the conflict. The best parts are the changes in outlook from the impossibly rosy attitudes in the first weeks to the realization, four months and hundreds of thousands of casualties later, that no one saw a quick way out of the war.