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Reader recommendation: Catastrophe 1914

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

  • By Earl Grout, Seattle

Catastrophe 1914, by Max Hastings, is the well-told story of how World War I started, how the rest of the war and its aftermath was set up, and how it was experienced on both sides.

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