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020 _a0340657901 (hbk.):
_c25.00 UK
100 1 _aCHARMLEY John
245 0 _aSpendid isolation? Britain, the balance of power and the origins of the First World War
260 _aLondon:
_bHodder & Stoughton,
_c1999
300 _a518p.
520 3 _aSuggests 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.
650 _aBRITAIN
650 _aCAUSES OF WAR
650 _aFIRST WORLD WAR
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