World War I (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | H. P. Willmott | knygos.lt

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Beautiful, richly illustrated history. WORLD WAR I was so terrible and so titanic a struggle that its memory haunts us still, even in the 21st century. No previous conflict had ever been as brutal or as vast in scale and its scars were so deep that it came to be known simply as “The Great War”. The battles fought so ferociously on land, sea, and in the air form the narrative core of this study, with some challenging new interpretations of the military events. However, distinguished historian H.P. Willmott has also focused his penetrating investigation beyond the military chronicle to produce a discerning analysis of the war’s labyrinthine causes and its wider consequences for politics, economics, culture, and society. The scale of the world’s first global war is accurately reflected in this panoramic survey, which shows how a conflict that began amongst European powers swiftly escalated to embroil their colonial empires. A vast range of original documentary and visual sources has been assembled to offer the reader a unique perspective on all aspects of the war. Vivid personal impressions of the fighting, letters home from the front, and haunting war poetry add a startling clarity to this incisive account and remind the reader of the most important aspect of “the war to end all wars” – its appalling human cost.