The World's War
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
When the guns of August 1914 began to fire, the conflict that erupted was not merely a European war — it was a truly global catastrophe that conscripted millions of soldiers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific into a struggle they had little reason to call their own. The World's War chronicles the forgotten stories of these men: the Indian sepoys who shivered in the trenches of the Western Front, the West African troops who fought under French and British flags, and the countless others whose sacrifices were systematically erased from the official narratives of the Great War. David Olusoga, one of Britain's most compelling historians, dismantles the comfortable, Eurocentric mythology of the First World War with forensic precision and moral urgency. His prose is both scholarly and deeply humane, illuminating the racial hierarchies that shaped how these men were deployed, commemorated — and ultimately forgotten. A vital corrective to a century of selective memory, this work forces a reckoning with the true, global scale of a conflict that reshaped the world, leaving the reader to wonder what other histories remain buried beneath the monuments we thought we knew.
Author: David Olusoga
Format: Hardback
Published: 2014, Head of Zeus
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
When the guns of August 1914 began to fire, the conflict that erupted was not merely a European war — it was a truly global catastrophe that conscripted millions of soldiers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific into a struggle they had little reason to call their own. The World's War chronicles the forgotten stories of these men: the Indian sepoys who shivered in the trenches of the Western Front, the West African troops who fought under French and British flags, and the countless others whose sacrifices were systematically erased from the official narratives of the Great War. David Olusoga, one of Britain's most compelling historians, dismantles the comfortable, Eurocentric mythology of the First World War with forensic precision and moral urgency. His prose is both scholarly and deeply humane, illuminating the racial hierarchies that shaped how these men were deployed, commemorated — and ultimately forgotten. A vital corrective to a century of selective memory, this work forces a reckoning with the true, global scale of a conflict that reshaped the world, leaving the reader to wonder what other histories remain buried beneath the monuments we thought we knew.