• The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.

  Source: The First World War (1963) p. 20

  A. J. P. Taylor
  British historian
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The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age. by : A. J. P. Taylor

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