| Biebcode | 3981 | |
| Titel | The First World War | |
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| Auteur | John Keegan | |
| Uitgever | Hutchinson | |
| ISBN | 9780091801786 | |
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| Status | ||
| Uitgave | Jaar: 1988 type: Paperback Soort: [O] Onbekend | |
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| Opslag | 6D1A =>Rij: 6 Kast: D Boord: 1 Lemma: A |
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." "Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent." "But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict.
