About this title: The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But now Norman Stone, one of Britain's greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse, brilliantly written, opinionated and witty short history of the conflict. In only 140 pages he distils a ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 4/27/2009
ISBN-13:9780465013685ISBN:0465013686
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2009-04-27
ISBN-13:9780465013685ISBN:0465013686
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2009-04-27
ISBN-13:9780465013685ISBN:0465013686
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 4-27-09
ISBN-13:9780465013685ISBN:0465013686
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 4-27-09
ISBN-13:9780465013685ISBN:0465013686
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"The book's advertised brevity is both its strength and shortcoming. Stone keeps an unbreakable gaze on the chronological and political events surrounding the war, but the self-imposed limits on his scope mean that no causes, consequences, or connections whatsoever are addressed. One might argue that this was not the purpose of the book, but no alternate reason for writing this book was posited - save brevity. What, ultimately, is the point? This is not the way to write history."
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