The Great War (Four-Volume Set)
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.
Edition: Illustrated edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards in very good condition. Bindings remain tight. Clean text.
A monumental work of military history and personal memoir, "The Great War" presents Winston Churchill's sweeping account of the First World War from the unique vantage point of a man who served at its highest levels of command, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, and Secretary of State for War. Churchill chronicles the catastrophic miscalculations, the failed campaigns, and the human cost of industrial-scale conflict with the authority of a direct participant and the narrative drive of a master prose stylist. The four volumes move from the diplomatic collapse of 1914 through the Western Front stalemate, the Gallipoli disaster for which Churchill bore significant personal responsibility, and the exhausting attritional warfare that consumed a generation of young men across Europe. Churchill argues throughout that the war's prolonged agony resulted as much from strategic rigidity and failures of political nerve as from the sheer military strength of the enemy. Published by George Newnes and drawing substantially on his earlier "The World Crisis," this collected edition stands as one of the great first-hand accounts of the conflict that permanently altered the political and cultural landscape of the twentieth century.
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Format: Hardback
Published: 1933, George Newnes Limited
Edition: Illustrated edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards in very good condition. Bindings remain tight. Clean text.
A monumental work of military history and personal memoir, "The Great War" presents Winston Churchill's sweeping account of the First World War from the unique vantage point of a man who served at its highest levels of command, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, and Secretary of State for War. Churchill chronicles the catastrophic miscalculations, the failed campaigns, and the human cost of industrial-scale conflict with the authority of a direct participant and the narrative drive of a master prose stylist. The four volumes move from the diplomatic collapse of 1914 through the Western Front stalemate, the Gallipoli disaster for which Churchill bore significant personal responsibility, and the exhausting attritional warfare that consumed a generation of young men across Europe. Churchill argues throughout that the war's prolonged agony resulted as much from strategic rigidity and failures of political nerve as from the sheer military strength of the enemy. Published by George Newnes and drawing substantially on his earlier "The World Crisis," this collected edition stands as one of the great first-hand accounts of the conflict that permanently altered the political and cultural landscape of the twentieth century.