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Now Keegan gives us a lavishly illustrated history of the war, brilliantly interweaving his narrative —some of it derived from his classic work and some of it new— with a brilliant selection of photographs, paintings, cartoons and posters drawn from archives across Europe and America, some published here for the first time. These images take us into the heart of battles that have become legend: Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme. They show us life on the British, American, French and German home fronts. They show us the generals' war and the privates' war —young soldiers, away from home for the first time, coming of age under fire.
We see how a civilization at the height of its power and influence crippled itself as the faith in progress, rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment was shattered. We see how four empires —the German, the Russian, The Austro-Hugarian and the Ottoman—collapsed, and how the sees for the Second World War planted. Keegan tells how ambition, mistrust and failures of diplomacy and communication all played a part in allowing this conflict to set ablaze what was then the world's most prosperous society. And he describes how the effects of this war lasted long after it ended; its ghosts still haunt Europe today.
An Illustrated History of the First World War carries us across the Europe of nearly a century ago, revealing the devastation, camaraderie, political machinations, and battlefield maneuverings that change the world presents the essential cast of the cataclysmic drama, from the decision makers at the top —Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, Pershing— to the troops in the trenches. Through its unique amalgam of pictorial and narrative brilliance, the work illuminates the war as no other work has done.
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First World War, World War I, Primera guerra mundial, WeltkriegTimes
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An Illustrated History of the First World War
2001, A. A. Knopf
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in English
- 1st ed.
037541259X 9780375412592
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Includes illustrations, bibliographical references (p. 411-414) and index.
The text is an abridgment of the author's The First World War.
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