A review by kentons
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow

3.0

This was an interesting book and not quite what I expected. I thought it was going to be a novel, not a study. While I still enjoyed it and the questions it raised particularly around geopolitics, I can't help but think that the author sets himself up for added criticism by trying to be so methodical. When it is so carefully laid out to be extremely accurate, you can't help but pick away at the various counterfactuals and search for bias. Had it been just a novel, you could have just enjoyed the thoughts.