Review: Easy to read and understand overview
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2013
World War I tends to be the forgotten war, overshadowed by World War II. I picked this book up to get a basic understanding of who was involved, what happened, how it unfolded, and the consequences. The title states it takes an hour to read, but I found it took me approximately 2.5 hours.I appreciated how the book was laid out in terms of chapters, so you could follow the action. I was pleasantly surprised with the photographs throughout the book, giving you a chance to see the principle players and some of the action of war. I liked the photograph of the man who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which I think is an amazing image. There are two pieces to World War I that I wondered if the author would include - the Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Spanish Influenza pandemic - he did. I was impressed with the added detail. At the end of the text, the author went year-by-year, month-by-month giving the basic details of World War I - when war was declared, battles, truces, etc. A great way to put the war in perspective.For a war that most people know nothing about, this is a great book to read to learn the basics without spending hours. I recommend picking it up and learning a bit more about the war. Because as Foch said about the treaty ending WWI, "This isn't a peace. It's a ceasefire for twenty years."