THE EVE OF 1914Theodor Wolff Knopf ($4.50).
By last week there were few men still alive who believed in the divine inspiration of the Treaty of Versailles. The world no longer believed what the Allies put in writing in 1919: that Germany and its allies were solely responsible for the War. But to readers who still took the unreconstructed view that the Western World had been invaded in 1914 by a barbarian horde, an Xerxes' host, Theodor Wolff's study of war origins would seem a surprisingly civilized Persian version. The Eve of 1914 let...
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