These books examine the travails of past peace talks. Many highlight the fateful consequences of reaching a bad deal. Anatomy ...

Margaret MacMillan is Professor Emeritus of International History at Oxford University and the author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us and The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914.

Margaret MacMillan’s ‘The War That Ended Peace’, Paul Ham’s ‘1914’ and David Reynolds’ ‘The Long Shadow’ The modern military has a word for a situation in which multiple things go wrong, resulting in ...