The First World War: 1914-1916 & 1917-1919
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: some stains on the slipcase;
Few conflicts have scarred the modern world as deeply as the First World War, and Martin Gilbert's monumental two-volume work stands as one of the most authoritative and humane accounts of that catastrophic struggle ever committed to the page. Spanning the years 1914 to 1919, this landmark set chronicles the full arc of the Great War — from the catastrophic miscalculations that ignited global conflict in the summer of 1914, through the grinding industrial slaughter of the Western Front, the revolutionary upheavals in Russia, and the eventual, exhausted armistice that reshaped the political map of the world. Gilbert, one of the twentieth century's most distinguished historians and the official biographer of Winston Churchill, brings his signature blend of meticulous archival research and deeply personal storytelling to bear on the millions of individual lives caught up in the machinery of total war. Drawing on diaries, letters, and official documents, he illustrates not merely the grand strategies of generals and statesmen, but the lived experience of soldiers in the trenches and civilians on the home front. Published in this handsome two-volume Folio Society edition — presented in a protective slipcase — this is a set that commands pride of place on any serious reader's shelf, a definitive chronicle of the war that ended one world and, fatally, planted the seeds of another.
Author: Martin Gilbert
Format: Hardback
Published: 2011, The Folio Society
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: some stains on the slipcase;
Few conflicts have scarred the modern world as deeply as the First World War, and Martin Gilbert's monumental two-volume work stands as one of the most authoritative and humane accounts of that catastrophic struggle ever committed to the page. Spanning the years 1914 to 1919, this landmark set chronicles the full arc of the Great War — from the catastrophic miscalculations that ignited global conflict in the summer of 1914, through the grinding industrial slaughter of the Western Front, the revolutionary upheavals in Russia, and the eventual, exhausted armistice that reshaped the political map of the world. Gilbert, one of the twentieth century's most distinguished historians and the official biographer of Winston Churchill, brings his signature blend of meticulous archival research and deeply personal storytelling to bear on the millions of individual lives caught up in the machinery of total war. Drawing on diaries, letters, and official documents, he illustrates not merely the grand strategies of generals and statesmen, but the lived experience of soldiers in the trenches and civilians on the home front. Published in this handsome two-volume Folio Society edition — presented in a protective slipcase — this is a set that commands pride of place on any serious reader's shelf, a definitive chronicle of the war that ended one world and, fatally, planted the seeds of another.