![]() 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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