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The First World War: A New History
Hew Strachan
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Description for The First World War: A New History
Paperback. A brilliant and penetrating history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued for the 100th Anniversary. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 x 16pp plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 201 x 27. Weight in Grams: 318.
A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author.
The popular view of the First World War is dominated by cliché: young British soldiers, many of them budding poets, led to early and ghastly deaths in muddy wastes by incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. As this magisterial new one volume history of the war illustrates, however, the cliché is only part of the truth. Hew Strachan argues that the war had become a ‘world war’ ... Read more
A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author.
The popular view of the First World War is dominated by cliché: young British soldiers, many of them budding poets, led to early and ghastly deaths in muddy wastes by incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. As this magisterial new one volume history of the war illustrates, however, the cliché is only part of the truth. Hew Strachan argues that the war had become a ‘world war’ ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471134265
SKU
V9781471134265
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About Hew Strachan
Professor Hew Strachan is the Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University, and the author of several highly acclaimed books on military history.
Reviews for The First World War: A New History
‘Quite simply the best short history of the war in print . . . Strachan has emerged as the master of us all who write of war in English’
Dennis Showalter ‘This is a book to buy if you aren’t lucky enough to be given it’
Christopher Hudson
Daily Mail Books of the Year
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Dennis Showalter ‘This is a book to buy if you aren’t lucky enough to be given it’
Christopher Hudson
Daily Mail Books of the Year
‘I have ... Read more