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Автор Christopher Clark

Dedication

For Josef and Alexander

Contents

Dedication

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I

Roads to Sarajevo

1. Serbian Ghosts

Murder in Belgrade

‘Irresponsible Elements’

Mental Maps

Separation

Escalation

Three Turkish Wars

The Conspiracy

Nikola Pašić Reacts

2. The Empire without Qualities

Conflict and Equilibrium

The Chess Players

Lies and Forgeries

Deceptive Calm

Hawks and Doves

PART II

One Continent Divided

3. The Polarization of Europe, 1887–1907

Dangerous Liaison: the Franco-Russian Alliance

The Judgement of Paris

The End of British Neutrality

Belated Empire: Germany

The Great Turning Point?

Painting the Devil on the Wall

4. The Many Voices of European Foreign Policy

Sovereign Decision-makers

Who Governed in St Petersburg?

Who Governed in Paris?

Who Governed in Berlin?

The Troubled Supremacy of Sir Edward Grey

The Agadir Crisis of 1911

Soldiers and Civilians

The Press and Public Opinion

The Fluidity of Power

5. Balkan Entanglements

Air Strikes on Libya

Balkan Helter-skelter

The Wobbler

The Balkan Winter Crisis of 1912–13

Bulgaria or Serbia?

Austria’s Troubles

The Balkanization of the Franco-Russian Alliance

Paris Forces the Pace

Poincaré under Pressure

6. Last Chances: Détente and Danger, 1912–1914

The Limits of Détente

‘Now or Never’

Germans on the Bosphorus

The Balkan Inception Scenario

A Crisis of Masculinity?

How Open Was the Future?

PART III

Crisis

7. Murder in Sarajevo

The Assassination

Flashbulb Moments

The Investigation Begins

Serbian Responses

What Is to Be Done?

8. The Widening Circle

Reactions Abroad

Count Hoyos Goes to Berlin

The Road to the Austrian Ultimatum

The Strange Death of Nikolai Hartwig

9. The French in St Petersburg

Count de Robien Changes Trains

M. Poincaré Sails to Russia

The Poker Game

10. The Ultimatum

Austria Demands

Serbia Responds

A ‘Local War’ Begins

11. Warning Shots

Firmness Prevails

‘It’s War This Time’

Russian Reasons

12. Last Days

A Strange Light Falls upon the Map of Europe

Poincaré Returns to Paris

Russia Mobilizes

The Leap into the Dark

‘There Must Be Some Misunderstanding’

The Tribulations of Paul Cambon

Britain Intervenes

Belgium

Boots

Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the Author

Also by Christopher Clark

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

Illustrations

1. Petar I Karadjordjević (Corbis)

2. King Alexandar and Queen Draga c. 1900 (Getty Images)

3.

Assassination of the Obrenović, from Le Petit Journal, 28 June 1903

4. Young Gavrilo Princip

5. Nedeljko Čabrinović

6. Milan Ciganović (Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

7. Count Leopold Berchtold (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

8. Conrad von Hötzendorf (Getty Images)

9. Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este

  10. Théophile Delcassé

  11. ‘The Scramble for China’, by Henri Meyer, Le Petit Journal, 1898

  12. Wilhelm II and Nicholas II wearing the uniforms of each other’s countries (Hulton Royals Collection/Getty Images)

  13. Wilhelm II (Bettmann/Corbis)

  14. Edward VII in his uniform as colonel of the Austrian 12th Hussars

  15. Pyotr Stolypin (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

  16. Joseph Caillaux (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

  17. Paul Cambon

  18. Sir Edward Grey