Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. 1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machineguns. What followed were the costliest days of the entire War. But how had it happened? In Catastrophe: 1914 Max Hastings, best selling author of the