The First World War, Paperback/John Keegan
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The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller
from one of our most eminent military historians, John Keegan. 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 times--modernism
in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical
thoughts about economics and society--and 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
legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and 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 catastrophe--from 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 deprive
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