World War One
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In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were ...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af World War One af Norman Stone
In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. This title provides a terse, opinionated and wry short history of the First World War. ''Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone''s short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel'' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors'' empires were fatally damaged. The First World War marked a revolution in the technology of slaughter as trench warfare, artillery barrages, tanks and chemical warfare made their mark on the battlefield for the first time. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But in only 140 pages, Norman Stone distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking to reframe the overwhelming disaster whose aftershocks shaped the rest of the twentieth century. ''Bold, provocative and witty . . one of the outstanding historians of our age'' Spectator''Entertaining and insightful . . one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit'' Tibor Fischer, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
9780141031569
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
240
Udgivelsesdato
27-03-2008
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1608753
EAN nr.
9780141031569
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
126
Bredde (mm)
197
Længde (mm)
18
Vægt (g)
184
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