The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 / July 1914: Countdown to War
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عنوان ژورنال: The RUSI Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0307-1847,1744-0378
DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2014.895270