The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I
- ISBN-10
- 1780337299
- ISBN-13
- 9781780337296
- Series
- The Mammoth Book of How it Happened
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-01
- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- Author
- Jon E. Lewis
Description
The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured, so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.
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Other editions
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- 2006-02-27
- 512 pages
- Paperback
- Running Press
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- 2005
- 492 pages
- Paperback
- Running PressBook Pub
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