This is not prompted by any R3 programme (though I am sure one or two will be along next year) but by this NS article reviewing three books on the war:
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/09/long-road-oblivion
I'd be interested in any suggestions for books on this event which still seems to me the greatest man-made tragedy in world history and which spawned many other tragedies, including indirectly the Holocaust. I hope in this light that next year's commemorations will not focus on a "justifiable war" but at least spend some time examining how it could have been avoided, and how war in the present age is so rarely a solution to anything as politicians still seem to think but often leads to many new problems.
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/09/long-road-oblivion
I'd be interested in any suggestions for books on this event which still seems to me the greatest man-made tragedy in world history and which spawned many other tragedies, including indirectly the Holocaust. I hope in this light that next year's commemorations will not focus on a "justifiable war" but at least spend some time examining how it could have been avoided, and how war in the present age is so rarely a solution to anything as politicians still seem to think but often leads to many new problems.
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