num_pages: 536
description: Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of 20th-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts the wars at sea and in the air and the advent of tanks and U-boats.Rich with personal insights the first part of Churchill's magisterial book covers the years 1911-1914 and includes Ireland and the European balance the mobilization of the Navy the invasion of France and Turkey and the Balkans.
language: English
title: The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911 - 1914
publisher: Thornton Butterworth Limited