The First World War: A New Illustrated History - Rilegato

Strachan, Sir Hew

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ISBN 10: 0743239598 ISBN 13: 9780743239592

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2003

Riassunto

A significant addition to the literature on World War I, which takes a global view of what has frequently been misperceived as a prolonged skirmish on the Western Front. Exploring such theatres as the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire, this single-volume work assesses Britain's participation in the light of what became a struggle for the defence of liberalism, and shows how the war shaped the "short" 20th century that followed it. Published to tie in with a television series, "The First World War" accompanies 10 one-hour episodes to be shown on Channel 4 during the autumn of 2003.

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Recensione

'Penetrating, accurate overview...Strachan delivers a telling portrait of a costly conflict. With exceptional photographs... and a highly accessible narrative, this book sheds new light on what has become a romanticized fight. A book that is not to be missed' GOOD BOOK GUIDE
'A riveting illustrated narrative, including rare colour photographs of the war by this leading scholar' HISTORY TODAY
“Aimed at the ‘general reader’, Strachan’s The First World War is a meticulous companion to the Channel 4 series of the same name...The text provides a useful foundation to both the TV programme’s striking visual conveyance of the international nature of the war...and indeed its own amazing, newly unearthed photographs...Within this beautifully designed book, they suddenly individuate the more abstract campaigns of the text, animating the war and the preoccupations of those Great War photographers... typical professionalism and solid wide-ranging research”
Imogen Gassert, Observer, 9/11/03
'A book to buy if you aren't lucky enough to be given it' DAILY MAIL
'Hew Strachan presents a clear, well-informed and up-to-date narrative of the war which both broadens knowledge and corrects received wisdom . . . lucid and readable' HISTORY TODAY
'This Oxford historian has been able to put the most recent scholarship into a clear and readable form . . . The book is also extremely well illustrated . . . The match between one of the major international experts on the Great War and a historian of photography skilled at discovering new and fresh resources -- especially in beautiful autochromes -- has been perfect . . . This is not a coffee-table picture book, but a work of very serious scholarship, in which photographs and text enhance each other and give meaning to the whole exercise. . . It is attention to every front, including interesting chapter called "Jihad" about war in the Ottoman Empire and the extermination of the Armenians, that adds value to Strachan's book' Annette Becker, THES
‘Strachan sets out to demonstrate that these clichés are only part of an overall truth, not least by arguing that for those countries struggling to defend their freedom, the war was far from futile’
Herald 23/10
‘An authoritative yet approachable chronicle of "the great war", as one of history's prime oxymorons put it’
Sunday Herald

L'autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0743239598
• ISBN 13: 9780743239592
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia