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The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (First World War (Oxford Paperback))
by
Hew Strachan
This is the first truly definitive history of World War I, the war that has had the greatest impact on the course of the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to a limited range of sources, and they focused primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. In this authoritat...more
Paperback, 1248 pages
Published
April 1st 2003
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published May 31st 2001)
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World War I is the runty little sibling of a cooler, better-known big brother, World War II. The perception of World War I's sheer meaningless, along with World War II's historical impact, has continued for long these many years, despite constant reappraisals, including Niall Ferguson's recent theory that it was all one big war, with a little break in the middle. For whatever reason, movies, books (aside from some great novels, such as "All Quiet on the Western Front"), and the History...more
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Far more detailed, exhaustively so, than I needed or wanted to read, but an awesome achievement. When oh when, or even if, will Strachan conclude his massive and authoritative trilogy
A mammoth book that gives you a prelude and introduction to the First world war as if you were in Harvard. After all, all of this for just the first two years.
But it's not written for your enjoyment: either you have the required focus to go over (and, more importantly, appreciate) hundreds of pages of economics, politics, and war, or you'll get overwhelmed and/or turned off quickly. Even I couldn't get through it fully with the mind-frame of a casual reader, the first time around.
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But it's not written for your enjoyment: either you have the required focus to go over (and, more importantly, appreciate) hundreds of pages of economics, politics, and war, or you'll get overwhelmed and/or turned off quickly. Even I couldn't get through it fully with the mind-frame of a casual reader, the first time around.
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