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The First World War by Hew Strachan

The popular view of the First World War is dominated by cliché. Young British soldiers, many of them budding poets, were led to early and ghastly deaths in muddy wastes by incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. And although clichés are not necessarily lies, they are at best a selective view of the truth. Building on his ongoing research for his mammoth three-volume history of the war, Hew Strachan presents a stunning account of the hostilities which offers many new interpretations of and insights into one of the defining events of the twentieth century. And, for the first time, it offers a truly global vision of a conflict which is often misconceived as a prolonged skirmish on the Western Front. Strachan argues convincingly that the war had become a 'world war' long before the involvement of the United States and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Far from being a 'European civil war', the conflict involved the colonial territories of European powers, and touched areas as far-flung as the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire. And it was the existence of these territories that helped explain why the war did not seem futile at the time: for Britain and France, it quickly became a struggle for the defence of liberalism.

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• First Impression
• Publisher Simon & Schuster, London; 2003
• Black Cloth Hardback, 350 pp
• Illustrated in colour and b/w
• Size 255 x 195mm, 1.7kg
• ISBN 0 7432 3959 8

Condition: Fine – Unclipped DJ, Superb Unmarked Copy

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