The First World War -- An OPUS book

by Keith Robbins

8vo large. Ex-library with usual stamps and marks, incl. withdrawn stamp and pos on ffep, otherwise a good tidy copy. Immediate despatch from the UK

Genres: History, Nonfiction, War, World War I

186 pages, Hardcover

First published April 18, 1985

About the author

Keith Gilbert Robbins FRSE FRHistS FLSW was a historian and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter. A specialist in modern British history, Robbins was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and Magdalen and St Antony’s Colleges, Oxford.

Reviews

[Roger Woods]

An interesting short analysis of the First World War by Professor Robbins. He deals with the causes, outlines the war on land, sea and air, deals with war aims and the home front and sums up the experience of the war on all sides.

[Michele Gatti]

Descrizione semplice e di alto livello della prima guerra mondiale

[Levan Tetrauli]

ასეთ საინტერესო თემაზე ასეთი უინტერესო წიგნი როგორ უნდა დაწერო..

[Laura]

nice short(ish) survey of a complex war. i would have liked more about how/why the war started and the details of it's end. the middle gets a little dry with an enumeration of lots of battles and generals and politicians. with so many belligerents its hard to keep all of the commanders straight and care about them as people when there isn't enough detail to get a personal sense of what they are like.

[Frank Russell]

the book was extremely fact-full and knowledgeable. which i loved, and is about a subject i am very passionate about. the reason i only gave it 2 stars was because the writer himself is very boring and can easily put someone to sleep. went off on way too many tangents.

[Chris S]

Not a particularly well written (brief) overview of WW1.