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The First World War (Paperback)

By: John Keegan (Author)


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"Like all Keegan's work, 'The First World War' is beautifully written and full of telling detail. It has its faults, but it is certainly the best overall account for the general reader that has appeared since that by Cyril Falls nearly forty years ago."

"John Keegan is a military historian, perhaps the best military historian of our day, and his new history of the war exemplifies his many strengths. [THE FIRST WORLD WAR] is elegantly written, clear, detailed and omniscient. As a narrative [THE FIRST WORLD WAR] is outstanding, telling the story of how the war began, how it was fought, why it was won by the Allies. Above all, Keegan conveys how it felt."

"[Keegan's] tale remains gripping throughout....Keegan remains a master."

Excerpt

But then the First World War is a mystery. Its origins are mysterious. So is its course. Why did a prosperous continent, at the height of its success as a source and agent of global wealth and power and at one of the peaks of its intellectual and cultural achievement, choose to risk all it had won for itself and all it offered to the world in the lottery of a vicious and local internecine conflict?

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The First World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict.

Publisher's note

Keegan offers the definitive account of the war that created the modern world, unleashing the terrors of mechanized warfare and mass death and establishing the political fault lines that imperil European stability to this day. of photos. 17 maps.

Annotation

In this history of World War I, a professor of military history discusses the causes of the war and provides in-depth analyses of the major battles on two fronts. He reports on the great changes Europe underwent as the result of the conflict, and how it was set up for the second conflict later in the century.



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