Spendid isolation? Britain, the balance of power and the origins of the First World War

CHARMLEY John

Spendid isolation? Britain, the balance of power and the origins of the First World War - London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999 - 518p.

Suggests that Britain did not have a foreign policy tradition of maintaining a balance of power, and that British involvement in the First World War was neither inevitable or desirable, particularly given the costs of doing so.

0340657901 (hbk.): 25.00 UK


BRITAIN
CAUSES OF WAR
FIRST WORLD WAR