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Praise for The First World War "This serious, compact survey of the war's history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available."
--Los Angeles Times
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"What Strachan offers is history as only the professionals can do it, and rarely enough even then."
--Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
"Likely to be the most indispensable one-volume work on the subject since John Keegan's First World War."
--Publishers Weekly
"A brilliant feat."
--John Keegan
"Quite simply the best short history of the war in print."
--Dennis Showalter
Hew Strachan (winner of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing) is the Chichele Professor of the History of War and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. The editor of The Oxford History of the First World War, he is writing a three-volume history of the First World War, the first volume of which was published in 2001 to wide acclaim.
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- Publication date2005
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