The First World War: A New History - Brossura

Strachan, Sir Hew

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ISBN 10: 0743239601 ISBN 13: 9780743239608

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His ongoing three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference work: Max Hastings called it 'one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation', while Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievement'. Now, Hew Strachan brings his immense knowledge to a one-volume work aimed squarely at the general reader. The inspiration for and a companion volume to the major Channel 4 series of the same name, to which Hew has been chief consultant, THE FIRST WORLD WAR is a significant addition to the literature on this subject, taking as it does a uniquely global view of what is often misconceived as a prolonged skirmish on the Western Front. Exploring such theatres as the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire, Hew Strachan goes on to assess Britain's participation in the light of what became a struggle for the defence of liberalism, and show how the war shaped the 'short' twentieth century that followed it. Accessible, compelling and utterly convincing, this is a modern history writing at its finest.

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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: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0743239601
• ISBN 13: 9780743239608
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia