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>> columnist and author chris collins -- tomlinson in his family's lake holdings legacy and how much legacy of slavery affects today's society. he talked to lydian tomlinson's brother about this on c-span2's after words. >> i have trouble picking on one part of the war. it is the conference of causes and timing. things happened in particular sequence and what you had by 1914 was certainly pressure building up. you also have a growing acceptance of the possibility of war which is very dangerous. whenever there's a crisis people didn't say if there is a war but when there is a war and there was real expectation that at some point there would be a general european war. even some people think it might be a relief.

one of the image is often used at the time, very oppressive, heavy, it would be a relief to get it over with and we will feel better and have a quick short war and have peace. what you also had was a dangerous sense by 1914 that we could get through these crises. ac your ease of crises getting closer together, the two crises, one of bosnia and a series of crises in the balkans in 1911 until 1914 and and dangerous sense of complacency the we got through all these, we will get through them again this summer of 1914 people didn't take it seriously. the british were preoccupied with civil war so if you look at british newspapers through july of 1914 the headlines are about ireland, not what is happening in the balkans but what austria and hungary are doing so you have a combination. enough people free paired to accept that war could be used as

an instrument of policy without terrible expense even though they should have known better and the expectation on the other hand is another crisis and we will get through it and i would say is this is true of the british in particular. didn't get people taking the crisis seriously until was too late. >> i am fascinated by tinderboxes. one of my prisons, my wife and i traveled through albanian earlier this year and i am fascinated as to the role you think that tipping point played in all this. it seems to have been crucial to the powers involved in this. could this war have occurred? could it have occurred in the balkans? >> it could have occurred because you have great rivalries that went to war 1898, russia

went close to war in 1906-1907 and so the balkans were particularly dangerous because of where they were and the number of interests met. rather like the middle east today or perhaps the china sea today and not just local interests. in the balkans you had a series of active competing local nationalisms becoming more vociferous rather than less and great power interests, it was a sentimental spot. it was much more importance and strength going into the mediterranean, and hugely important for russia, something like over half of its grain exports went out that way, industrial machinery coming in, a little passageway for the russians and austria and hungary seeing serbia as an exponential

threat conlan and germany's interest in the balkans and italy and so you have a combination that was very dangerous. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. here is a look at some books that are being published as the 40th anniversary of the impeachment proceedings and subsequent resignation of president richard nixon approaches several of the being released to mark the anniversary. john dean utilize his own transcript and president nixon's surreptitiously recorded conversations, 150,000 pages that the nixon library and national archives to report on what president nixon knew and when he knew it in the nixon defense. in the nixon tapes, douglas brinkley looks at the 3700 hours of recorded conversations made by president nixon from

1971-1973. 5% of which had been previously transcribed and published. can use of the university of virginia miller center presidential reporting program presents his findings on corruption in the nixon administration that exceeded what was exposed during the watergate scandal in chasing shadow. also up next week conservative activist david horowitz provide the strategy he believes the republican party needs to use to win back the country in take no prisoners. director of the brookings intelligence project recounts the defeat of the soviet 40th ran army in what we won:america's secret war in afghanistan. in a spy among friends, the great betrayal, ben mcintyre, writers at large, recounts the british spy who worked for the soviet union during the height of the cold war. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org.

>> dan mcmillan is next on booktv. he presents his thoughts on the causes for the holocaust from the prevalence of anti-semitism and political fissures incurred from world war i to germany's inability to become a democracy until 1918. this is a in the oil under an hour. >> thank you very much for being here. the holocaust has been with me for a long time now. in my experience it is qualitatively different from how we respond to contemplating other historical events. when we look at all the terrible suffering human beings have inflicted on each other down through the centuries we are often saddened by what we see and sometimes we are also a angry. we look at the holocaust, we are