The First World War
Keegan, John
Prebble, Simon (NRT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
The highest praise greeted the hardcover publication of this engrossing, brilliant book - THE definitive story of the Great War, the war that created the modern world, unleashing the terrors of mechanized warfare and mass death, and establishing the polit
BOOK SYNOPSIS
The highest praise greeted the hardcover publication of this engrossing, brilliant book - THE definitive story of the Great War, 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.
Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the doomed diplomatic efforts to avert the catastrophe; he probes the haunting question of how a civilization at the height of its cultural achievement and prosperity could propel itself toward ruin with so little provocation; his panoramic narrative brings to life the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend - Verdun, the Somme, Gallipoli - as with profound sympathy, he explores the minds of Joffe, Haig and Hindenburg, the famed generals who directed the cataclysm.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
BOOK REVIEWS
At once the most readable and the most original of living military historians."--The New York Times
It takes a disciplined and enormously well-read scholar to bring order and meaning to the complexity of the Great War. It takes the artistry of a gifted storyteller to craft such technical detail into a page-turner. Mr Keegan does exactly that." -The Wall Street Journal
One of the foremost military thinkers today.-- Must reading for the Department of National Defence, politicians and anyone concerned about the future and the inherent nature of the human species." -Ottawa Sun
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0739312499
ISBN(13-digit): 9780739312490
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 940.3
Library of Congress: BL2004002521
Book Publisher: Random House
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): .58 lb
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