THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Author : John Keegan

Publications : Vintage

9780375700453

267 Pages

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The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller from one of our most eminent military historians, John Keegan. The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment.

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Language
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English
Published In
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United Kingdom
Publications
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Vintage
Pages
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267
Published Date
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16-05-2000
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