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From the author of Fields of Battle comes a monumental history of the Great War that chronicles the events of the conflict from early diplomatic efforts to avert war, through the nightmarish campaigns and battles, to the end of the war and the repercussions of World War I. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
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"Eloquent.... Mr. Keegan captures the anamolous, even surreal quality of the war." -The New York Times
"The best one-volume account there is." -Civilization
"Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient.... Keegan is ...perhaps the best military historian of our day." -The New York Times Book Review
"Undoubtedly the world's most accessible and popular military historian." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Magisterial.... A miracle of concision." -The Weekly Standard
"An epic tale.... Makes us keenly aware of how battles are fought, won, and lost." -Fortune
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"The best one-volume account there is." -Civilization
"Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient.... Keegan is ...perhaps the best military historian of our day." -The New York Times Book Review
"Undoubtedly the world's most accessible and popular military historian." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Magisterial.... A miracle of concision." -The Weekly Standard
"An epic tale.... Makes us keenly aware of how battles are fought, won, and lost." -Fortune
John Keegan was for many years senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and has been a fellow at Princeton University and a visiting professor of history at Vassar College. He is the author of twenty books, including the acclaimed The Face of Battle and The Second World War. He lived in Wiltshire, England until his death in 2012.
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- Data di pubblicazione2000
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- Numero di pagine528
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. "Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient. Keegan is.perhaps the best military historian of our day." The New York Times Book Review The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our timesmodernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and societyand in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. The First World War probes the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict and takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. Keegan reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent.But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legendVerdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among themand sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophefrom heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded"the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable."By the end of the war, three great empiresthe Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottomanhad collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history. In the definitive account of the Great War, Keegan sheds fascinating light on weaponry and technology; shows the doomed negotiations between the monarchs and ministers of 1914; and takes readers into the verminous trenches of the Western front. of photos. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780375700453
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