The First World War: 1914-1918
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
When the guns of August 1914 shattered the long peace of Europe, the world was drawn into a conflict of unprecedented scale and brutality — and John Terraine's The First World War: 1914–1918 stands as one of the most authoritative and unflinching accounts of that cataclysm ever written. Cutting through decades of myth and misremembrance, Terraine chronicles the full sweep of the Great War, from the opening mobilisations on the Western Front to the exhausted armistice of November 1918, presenting the military, political, and human dimensions of a war that reshaped the modern world. Terraine was one of the twentieth century's most respected and controversial military historians, celebrated for his willingness to challenge received wisdom — most notably his robust defence of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at a time when popular opinion had long condemned him. In The First World War: 1914–1918, he argues with characteristic rigour and clarity that the war's conduct, however terrible, was shaped by strategic and technological realities that commanders could not simply wish away. Written with the authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime immersed in the archives, this work remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not merely what happened, but why — and what it cost.
Author: John Terraine
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, A Leo Cooper Book / Secker & Warburg, London
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
When the guns of August 1914 shattered the long peace of Europe, the world was drawn into a conflict of unprecedented scale and brutality — and John Terraine's The First World War: 1914–1918 stands as one of the most authoritative and unflinching accounts of that cataclysm ever written. Cutting through decades of myth and misremembrance, Terraine chronicles the full sweep of the Great War, from the opening mobilisations on the Western Front to the exhausted armistice of November 1918, presenting the military, political, and human dimensions of a war that reshaped the modern world. Terraine was one of the twentieth century's most respected and controversial military historians, celebrated for his willingness to challenge received wisdom — most notably his robust defence of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at a time when popular opinion had long condemned him. In The First World War: 1914–1918, he argues with characteristic rigour and clarity that the war's conduct, however terrible, was shaped by strategic and technological realities that commanders could not simply wish away. Written with the authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime immersed in the archives, this work remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not merely what happened, but why — and what it cost.