The First World War - Hardcover

Gilbert, Martin

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297813129 ISBN 13: 9780297813125

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994

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If almost every war is worse than expected, none was more so than World War I. Instead of lasting a few months, its four years brought loss of life and enormous suffering millions. It caused the collapse of empires and redrew the map of Europe for ever. Illusions on all sides - military, political and cultural were shattered. This book charts the ever-growing development and horror of the war - not only the great battles on the Eastern and Western Fronts but the war at sea, in the air and the effects of the war far from the frontline. Throughout, the book records the courage and heroism of individual soldiers and civilians of many nations in this account of the Great War.

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"For the general reader who wants to know both what happened (on the field and off) and how it felt for the men who did the fighting, this is the best single-volume history of the First World War that has yet been written."

"An incomparable record of how ordinary and extraordinary men and women endured the unendurable." - Kirkus Reviews

Book Description:

'One of the first books that anyone should read in beginning to try to understand this war and this century' New York Times Book Review

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