He has a gift for seeing the whole world and for packing complicated material into a few boldly stroked sentences

Fromkin gives some excellent pen portraits of the principals and uses quotations to deadly effect

A crisp, lively, day-by-day account of that fateful summer... This book, both decisive and nuanced, is as convincing as it is appalling

An absorbing history of WWI's origins... Superb

An enormously impressive book, a popular history brimming with fresh scholarship

It is the vividness of his recall, his feel for emotion and ability to pinpoint people and place that make this such a compelling read