{"product_id":"2026200017162-secondhand-the-first-world-war-1914-1918","title":"The First World War: 1914-1918","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\n\nTerraine 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269352333531,"sku":"2026200017162-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2298a349-7f89-4434-aa51-08571c056fd9.png?v=1788999178","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017162-secondhand-the-first-world-war-1914-1918","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}