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1914 The Year the World Ended
Paul Ham
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Description for 1914 The Year the World Ended
Paperback. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, this book takes the reader on a journey into the labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the flawed and disturbed minds that drove the world to war. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; HBW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. Weight in Grams: 368.
In this searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World War, Paul Ham argues that European leaders did not `sleepwalk' into war, but that they fully accepted and understood the consequences of the decisions they were making. In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the world on course for the bloodiest century in human history. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, Ham takes ... Read more
In this searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World War, Paul Ham argues that European leaders did not `sleepwalk' into war, but that they fully accepted and understood the consequences of the decisions they were making. In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the world on course for the bloodiest century in human history. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, Ham takes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552779852
SKU
V9780552779852
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99-99
About Paul Ham
Paul Ham is the author of the critically acclaimed Sandakan, Hiroshima Nagasaki, Vietnam: The Australian War, Kokoda and 1914: The Year the World Ended. A former correspondent for the Sunday Times (between 1998-2012), Paul was born in Sydney and educated in Australia and Britain, where he completed a Masters degree in Economic History at the London School ... Read more
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