Anyone who feels the tale of war can be told by totaling up troop and equipment will be disapointed with this full juicy and robust telling of WW1.
He pointed out the forming of a department of propaganda using famous author's such as Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to provide positive information to help recruit men for the army.
The First World War created the modern world.
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Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
As soon as I finished I just started it over.
In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before.
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Adam Hochschild, 2011 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 464 pp.
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This is not a traditional history of WWI.
In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of To End All Wars Based on the book by Ernest Gordon, "To End All Wars" is the story about captured Allied POW's struggle to survive in a Thailand concentration camp. Stream or download thousands of included titles. © Copyright 1997 - 2020 Audible, Inc
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Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East.
This story casts penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war.
In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the 20th century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences.
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. Blog
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The obvious costs, of course, were the casualties and their families’ suffering, but the book’s scope extends to costs to civil liberties, civil discourse and family relations, in a word, civilization.
What was gained, he wonders, to compensate for opening the door to the horrors of total war, mechanized slaughter, and genocide? He takes a subject, World War I, which has been thoroughly worked by many historians for many decades, and uncovers new material and a new angle from which to view the war.
Arthur Morey narrates the details in a matter-of-fact way, but his voice gathers a hard edge as he recounts events like the execution of men who were emotionally shattered by the constant bombardment, or the ghastly experience of watching new shells further shredding the remains of buried comrades.
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