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The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors� empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But now Norman Stone, one of Britain�s greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse, brilliantly written, opinionated and witty short history of the conflict. In only 140 pages he distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking into what will be one of the most talked about history books of years to come.
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World War One, Norman Stone
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- World War One
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Norman Stone
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0141031565
- ISBN13
- 9780141031569
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Military History, Military Fiction, Wars, World War I (1914–1918)
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
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- The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors� empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But now Norman Stone, one of Britain�s greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse, brilliantly written, opinionated and witty short history of the conflict. In only 140 pages he distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking into what will be one of the most talked about history books of years to come.