David Fromkin

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

In Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?, David Fromkin diverges from the more traditional view that WWI was the result of an unfortunate series of diplomatic accidents. He thinks Germany and Austro-Hungary deserve much of the blame for the war’s outbreak.

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