The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (First World War (Oxford Paperback))
"Deserves to rank as one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation. It reflects 20 years of research, and mastery of the literature of many nations....The book addresses every aspect of global conflict--diplomacy, politics, finance, industry, battle on land and at sea, in Europe, Africa, and around the world.....Magnificent."--The London Evening Standard"Definitive" is a much overused word, but this work merits the term. The first in a three-volume history that explores nearly every aspect of the war, from finance to ideology to diplomacy to armaments, it combines depth with staggering breadth, acute analysis with magisterial narrative."--TheAtlantic Monthly"'Definitive', proclaims the blurb accompanying the first volume of Hew Strachan's magnificent new history of the first world war, and definitive it is. There will be two further volumes...The result will be a scholarly triumph. In a field cluttered with competitors Mr. Strachan will be lengths ahead."--The Economist"Massive in size and impressive in scope, Strachan's work promises to be the definitive account of the Great War in English." --Choice