World War One
a short history
by Norman Stone
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In 1914, prosperous countries across Europe at last mobilised their vast armies. Each nation was confident of victory. Instead Europe destroyed itself. The First World War still haunts us all nearly a century after its outbreak. What was meant to be a grab for imperial loot or a settling of scores turned into a nightmare with millions of men killed by hideous technologies. Ultimately almost all the principal states engaged in the war were ruined, with even the notional winners irreparably damaged: the loot proved worthless and the world was doomed to an even more terrible settling of scores only 20 years later. World War One: A Short History is a brilliantly written, often very witty account, which makes a familiar story fresh and surprising.
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WORLD WAR ONE: A SHORT HISTORY.
Publish date unknown, ALLEN LANE
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references.
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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 lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking into what will be one of the most talked about history books of years to come.
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