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Bold, provocative and witty ... one of the outstanding historians of our age (Spectator)
Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel (Literary Review)
One of the most original modern commentaries on the conflict ... this stimulating work can be read for pleasure in an afternoon, even if you are not particularly interested in World War One. That truly is the mark of a great history book (Evening Standard)
Exhilarating ... scintillating ... a heady cocktail (Observer)
Entertaining and insightful ... one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit (Tibor Fischer Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year)
A corker of a book ... brings more clarity to this complex, much-written about subject than some historians manage to do in books three or four times as long (History Today)
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Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel (Literary Review)
One of the most original modern commentaries on the conflict ... this stimulating work can be read for pleasure in an afternoon, even if you are not particularly interested in World War One. That truly is the mark of a great history book (Evening Standard)
Exhilarating ... scintillating ... a heady cocktail (Observer)
Entertaining and insightful ... one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit (Tibor Fischer Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year)
A corker of a book ... brings more clarity to this complex, much-written about subject than some historians manage to do in books three or four times as long (History Today)
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But now Norman Stone, one of Britain's greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse, brilliantly written, opinionated and witty short history of the conflict. In only 140 pages he distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking into what will be one of the most talked about history books of years to come.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In World War One- A Short History, Norman Stone provides a terse, opinionated and wry short history of the First World War.In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The First World War marked a revolution in the technology of slaughter as trench warfare, artillery barrages, tanks and chemical warfare made their mark on the battlefield for the first time.The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But in only 140 pages, Norman Stone distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking to reframe the overwhelming disaster whose aftershocks shaped the rest of the twentieth century.'Bold, provocative and witty . one of the outstanding historians of our age'Spectator'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel'Literary Review'Exhilarating . scintillating . a heady cocktail'Observer'Entertaining and insightful . one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit'Tibor Fischer, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the YearNorman Stone is one of Britain's most celebrated historians. He is the author of The Eastern Front, 1914-1917, Hitler- An Introduction, Europe Transformed and The Atlantic and its Enemies. He has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent, where he is now Director of the Turkish-Russian Centre. In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. This title provides a terse, opinionated and wry short history of the First World War. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780141031569
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