Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3018892 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

Review
"All the ways that Mr. Gilbert's "The First World War" brings the conflict home to people at the end of the twentieth century render it one of the first books that anyone should read in beginning to try to understand this war and this century."--John Milton Cooper", The New York Times Book Review"
"Among the thousands of accounts of the conflict, Gilbert's is remarkable, even stunning."--Michael Kenney", The Boston Globe"
"For the general reader who wants to know both what happened (on the field and off) and how it felt for the men who did the fighting, this is the best one-volume history of the First World War that has yet been written."--Samuel Hynes", Newsday"
"Gilbert covers all the war's multiple fronts and follows the combat from beginning to end, and he does so in a way that brings distant events to painful immediacy. His work helps keep the memory of the fourteen million victims alive."--John R. Alden, "The Philadelphia Inquirer"

Synopsis
Recounts the course of World War I, the enormity of its cost, the advances it brought in technology, and its effect on European society.