TY  - BOOK
AU  - CHARMLEY John
TI  - Spendid isolation? Britain, the balance of power and the origins of the First World War
SN  - 0340657901 (hbk.):
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Hodder & Stoughton
KW  - BRITAIN
KW  - CAUSES OF WAR
KW  - FIRST WORLD WAR
N2  - 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
ER  -