![]() ![]() As first-hand memory fades, The First World War honours the dead as only true history can' Sunday Times 'Nobody describes a battle as Keegan does, vividly relating the unfolding events to the contours of the field of combat. 'The best and most approachable introduction to the war' Guardian ![]() Pertinent, authoritative and gripping, this panoramic account of WW1 is regarded as a world history classic. But as Keegan expertly shows, the devastation extended over the entirety over Europe and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today: modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society.īy the end of the war, three great empires - the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman - had collapsed. ![]() ![]() It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John KeeganĢ018 marks the centenary of the First World War - the war that created the modern world. ![]()
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