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ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Exceptional insight into the Great War

This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to know the details of The Great War. It has a nonstop plethora of pictures which take you through the entire war from the assassination of the Archduke to final day of fighting. The book can be very detailed, describing or showing troop movements, horrific battle conditions, and casualty reports. None of the major battles are overlooked. Mention is also made to the fact that most countries were unprepared for 20th century warfare. Major personalities are profiled in special pages of the book including the famous Red Baron. Not limited to just Europe, Keegan describes the war elsewhere in the world including Africa and in the Pacific theatre. War in the air is discussed including a special section on dirigibles and airplanes.
A must read for the serious student of WW I."

"A classic that covers superbly a whole era. Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."

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The Guns of August "More dramtatic than fiction. THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative - beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained ... The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten. The best "popular" history of the war yet written The First World War "Masterfully telling the complicated and heart-rending story of the war from his unique perspective as the world's leading military historian, Keegan weaves the eventful tapestry as no one else could. Particularly useful are his frequent summaries of where the combatants and their armies stood at various crucial times which provide the reader a much better sense of how and why subsequent events unfolded as they did. It is true that Keegan does not dwell on the causes of the war; for that story, try Niall Ferguson's recent and somewhat controversial "The Pity of War." Nor can he spend much time on the thoughts and feelings of the combatants (though he includes several carefully chosen soldiers' reminiscences); none better for that than Lynn Macdonald's series of "year" books, "1914", et al. What Keegan does do is provide even the knowledgeable reader with an amazingly fresh and insightful assessment of those four terrible years when the world turned upside down. Perhaps Keegan would agree that it is a book he could write only at this point in his long and incomparably distinguished career. It is Keegan at his mature and very best." The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 There is no doubt that Alistair Horne's The Price of Glory, first written in 1962, is a classic of military history. Horne's account of the sanguinary ten-month Battle of Verdun in 1916 is still the best English-language account of the campaign. The Price of Glory also represents the middle volume of Horne's trilogy on the Franco-German wars fought between 1870 and 1940. Certainly anyone with an interest in the First World War should read and reread Horne's book. Horne's descriptions of the German capture of Fort Douamont and the underground battles in the corridors of Fort Vaux are told dramatically and with great style. The battles for the hills on the left bank of the Meuse and the constant see-saw of German attacks and French counterattacks round out the narrative. It should be noted though, that Horne's primary focus is on the high-level strategy behind the battle. German General Falkenhayn's intent to fight a limited attritional battle at Verdun in order to bleed the French white is explained, although the failure of the German's to follow through on the commander's intent should provide examples in the danger of "mission creep". There is much emphasis on French generals, too, including Joffre, de Castelnau, Petain, Mangin and Nivelle. Although diary and post-war accounts from junior soldiers are included, their accounts seem intended more to embellish the main story.
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World War I

The best "popular" history of the war yet written