403 Review Santos Castro Fernández Adviser of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies REVIEW OF THE BOOK: THE WAR THAT ENDED PEACE. HOW EUROPE ABANDONED PEACE FOR THE FIRST WORLD WAR By: Margaret MacMillan Editorial: Turner Noema Libros, Madrid, 2014 ISBN: 978-84-15832-08-9, (845 pages) We can expect a bumper crop this year on account of the centenary. Doubtless there will be many books for us to enjoy about the Great War, dubbed the first war of the modern era, a war on an industrial scale, with which the so-called “short 20th Century” began. However, amidst the broad range of offerings, one title stands out on account of its particular focus. Margaret MacMillan, professor of history at the University of Oxford and great-grandchild of Prime Minister Lloyd George, offers us: “The War that ended Peace. The road to 1914”, edited in Spain by Turner. This is not a book for those looking for insight into the war itself, the scenarios at the fronts, the great military offensives, the kilometres of liquid mud in the trenches and the appearance of the first tanks in Europe. These “storms of steel” are not what readers will find here. On the contrary, and I feel that readers will be grateful for it, they will be presented with the history of Europe in the preceding decades; the book could even have been titled “Europe fin de siècle”, because this is the real issue the
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