14-18: Understanding the Great War - Softcover

Audoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane; Becker, Annette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809046431 ISBN 13: 9780809046430

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 2014

Synopsis

With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker have shown that the Great War was the matrix on which all subsequent disasters of the twentieth century were formed.

Three elements of the conflict, all too often neglected or denied, are identified as those that must be grasped if we are to understand the war: First, what inspired its unprecedented physical brutality, and what were the effects of tolerating such violence? Second, how did citizens of the belligerent states come to be driven by vehement nationalistic and racist impulses? Third, how did the tens of millions bereaved by the war come to terms with the agonizing pain?

With its strikingly original interpretative strength and its wealth of compelling documentary evidence drawn from all sides in the conflict, 14-18: Understanding the Great War has quickly established itself as a classic in the history of modern warfare.

About this title

About the Authors

Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau is at the University of Clermont-Ferrand.

Annette Becker, of the University of Paris X-Nanterre, has written extensively on the Great War. She is a director of the Historial of the Great War in the Somme Valley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809046431
• ISBN 13: 9780809046430
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288