Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War

‘A book unlike any other on the 1914 debate … a wealth of sharp and compelling reflections on how and why historians argue as they do, why they rethink, abandon or double down on their positions, and how politics and emotion flow into the writing of history and back out of it into the world’

Christopher Clark, London Review of Books

In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that...