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The First World War (Smithsonian History of Warfare) (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
Industrial and ironclad power reached its culmination in the war that engulfed Europe. As events would prove, however, the products of the industrial system of the 20th century, including the capacity of the system to transfer vast reserves of manpower from civilian to military employment at short notice, much more greatly favoured strategies of defence than offence. The
...morePaperback, 240 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by Collins
(first published March 2000)
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A concise, illustrated, John Bull version of the First World War, Prior and Wilson's history takes a birds-eye view of the great conflict and distills that complicated clash of nations into a handful of short chapters. The book's strengths are its brevity and clarity. Without bogging down in the details, you'll get a broad idea of how the major events of the war played out. This coarse-grained approach to history doesn't focus on anything much finer than a front. And the front of principal inter...more
I don't know why World War I is such a difficult topic for me to get interested in. This is a quick summary of causes, major battles, etc.
Concise, if rather smug, account of the war.
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