The First World War - Brossura

Strachan, Hew

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ISBN 10: 0143035185 ISBN 13: 9780143035183

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

Riassunto

A hard-hitting, single-volume history of the "Great War" explores the causes and consequences of this global conflict, while tracing its continual reverberations throughout world history almost a century later. Reprint.

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Praise for The First World War:

"This serious, compact survey of the war’s history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available." 
—Los Angeles Times

"What Strachan offers is history as only the professionals can do it, and rarely enough even then."
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

"Likely to be the most indispensable one-volume work on the subject since John Keegan’s First World War."
—Publishers Weekly

"A brilliant feat."
—John Keegan

"Quite simply the best short history of the war in print."
—Dennis Showalter

L'autore:

Hew Strachan (winner of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing) is the Chichele Professor of the History of War and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. The editor of The Oxford History of the First World War, he is writing a three-volume history of the First World War, the first volume of which was published in 2001 to wide acclaim.

Hew Strachan (winner of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing) is the Chichele Professor of the History of War and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. The editor of The Oxford History of the First World War, he is writing a three-volume history of the First World War, the first volume of which was published in 2001 to wide acclaim.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143035185
• ISBN 13: 9780143035183
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384