The First World War
By: Hew Strachan
Edition: [New] edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Simon & Schuster, Limited; Simon & Schuster Ltd; Transworld Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781471134265; 9781471141959
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Warfare and Defence; Eerste Wereldoorlog; Europe; World War I.; History
Description: A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His on-going three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference work: Max Hastings called it 'one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation', while Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievement'. Now, Hew Strachan brings his immense knowledge to a one-volume work aimed squarely at the general reader. The inspiration behind the major Channel 4 series of the same name, to which Hew was chief consultant, The First World War is a significant addition to the literature on this subject, taking as it does a uniquely global view of what is often misconceived as a prolonged skirmish on the Western Front. Exploring such theatres as the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire, Strachan assesses Britain's participation in the light of what became a struggle for the defence of liberalism, and show how the war shaped the 'short' twentieth century that followed it.
Notes: TV tie-in.

Previous edition: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To arms; title: Under the eagle; title: Global war; title: Jihad; title: Shackled to a corpse; title: Breaking the deadlock; title: Blockade; title: Revolution; title: Germany's last gamble; title: War without end.