The first world war a new history epub hew strachan. A brilliant and penetrating new history of the first world war by one of the world s foremost experts on the conflict. The first world war is a subject i enjoy reading about most of the time, but i felt strangely removed from the story when attempting this volume. Their german name was changed to windsor in 1917, during the first world war. Strachan has done a masterful job of reexamining the causes, the major campaigns, and the consequences of the first world war, compressing a lifetime of knowledge into a single definitive volume tailored for the general reader. Hew strachan, winner of the 2016 pritzker literature award, is a professor of international relations at the university of st. The origins of the first world war oxford academic journals. For the seasoned reader of the first world war, i bet that you will learn something new from this book. For the casual reader, stay away from this book and read hew strachans other history of the first world war. This serious, compact survey of the war s history stands out as the most wellinformed, accessible work available. The first world war ebook by hew strachan rakuten kobo. It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the first world war, yet as military historian hew strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative onevolume history, the legacy of the war to end all wars is with us still. Definitive, proclaims the blurb accompanying the first volume of hew strachans magnificent new history of the first world war, and definitive it is. The first world war by geoffrey jukes overdrive rakuten.
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Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of. 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. This is the first of three volumes in hew strachans study. To arms is hew strachan s most complete and definitive study of the opening of the first world war. This is the first truly definitive history of the first world war, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth cen. He is the author or editor of many books, including the oxford illu. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This is likely to be the most indispensable onevolume work on the subject since john keegans first world. Read the first world war a new history by hew strachan available from rakuten kobo. World war i wikipedia world war i often abbreviated as wwi or ww1 also known as the first world war or the great war was a global war originating in europe that lasted from 28 july 1914 to 11 november 1918 first world a multimedia history of world war one selected highlights countdown to war read a single page summary of the origins of the first world war the tangled secret alliances the royal. The first world war the war to end all wars by geoffrey jukes author michael hickey author.
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