by Sebastian Haffner · Ediciones Destino · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423338283
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In this lucid essay, Sebastian Haffner analyzes the origins and development of the First World War, exploring the seven fatal mistakes that Germany made during the conflict. Haffner examines the true causes of the war, whether it could have been avoided, the power strategies of the great powers, and the world that emerged from this conflict. A masterful analysis that breaks clichés and offers a new political vision of the origin and development of the war, allowing us to understand the past and analyze the present with greater precision.
Raimund Pretzel, better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was not only impossible with Adolf Hitler but also impossible with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled. Peace could be secured only by rolling back history and restoring Germany to a network of smaller states. As a journalist in West Germany, Haffner's independence and penchant for provocation precipitated breaks with editors both liberal and conservative. His intervention in the Spiegel affair of 1962, and his contributions to the anti-fascist rhetoric of the student New Left, sharply raised his profile.
