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Great War
Hardback Edition: 1/2013
This is a masterful history of the First World War, covering all areas and explaining the technology and tactics that determined its course. The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. Empires fell, others were crippled
and new contenders emerged. Economies crashed, and millions would be affected by the Depression that followed. Understanding The Great War is crucial to understanding the history of the twentieth century and the present day. In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts from kings and generals, and ordinary soldiers. He focuses in particular on explaining how technology and tactics developed during the conflict - and determined which battles were crucial to its outcome. Combatants from every corner of Earth joined the fray, but their voices are rarely heard together. This is a major history of the conflict whose 100th anniversary is fast approaching.
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Pages : 608
Publication date : 2013-06-01
Publisher : Profile Books Ltd. (UK)
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, First World War