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The First World War Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photos, this account is "quite simply the best short history of the war in print" (Dennis Showalter). Full description
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"This serious, compact survey of the war's history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available."--Los Angeles Times
"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
About the Author
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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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0143035185
- ISBN 13 9780143035183
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages400
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