Book cover for The First World War

The First World War

Publisher: A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
ISBN13: 9780375400520
Format: VOICEText
Description
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."
Publisher A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
ISBN10 0375400524
ISBN13 9780375400520
Number of Pages 475
File Size DL-396MB
Shelf Number GB966
Grade Range
Ages 20 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download