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hard cover is in fine condition as is the dust jacket now protected in mylar cover. is as if unread. media mail shipping only !!. Seller Inventory # 005276
Bibliographic Details
Title: An Illustrated History of the First World War
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf, N. Y.
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First American Edition
About this title
The outbreak of World War I, Keegan notes, caught many Europeans and Americans by surprise. "Europe in the summer of 1914," he writes, "enjoyed a peaceful productivity so dependent on international co-operation that a belief in the impossibility of general war seemed the most conventional of wisdoms." That wisdom was quickly shattered with the onset of hostilities in the Balkans, which soon swept the continent and the world. Keegan takes a large view of events (the massive, multimillion-man offensives along the fronts, for instance) while recalling the agonies (and occasional triumphs) of countless individuals on both sides of the conflict. As he writes, Keegan offers a number of correctives (against other historians, for instance, he asserts that German forces indeed committed atrocities in Belgium), and he catalogs the blunders and disorders that cost each side needlessly and dearly.
No contemporary historian is better equipped than Keegan for his subject, and this book merits a place on the shelf of every student of modern history. -- Gregory McNamee
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