"From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches: grinding, halting battle…
Mordet på det østrig-ungarske tronfølgerpar - ærkehertug Frans Ferdinand og hans hustru Sophie - 28. juni 1914 i Sarajevo angives ofte som den egentlige årsag til, at 1. Verdenskrig brød ud. Men årsagen til krigen havde langt dybere rødder, der gik længere tilbage bl. a., Østrig…
An authoritative chronicle, drawing on new research on World War I, traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute narrative that examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914.
In 'Catastrophe', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St. Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalements of later trench-warfare but…
In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation- what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men and women during the first month…
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation- what was then called The Great Wa…
This work conveys the spirit of the British Tommy, weaving a concise analysis of the British Army in the First World War with first-hand accounts taken from uncensored letters and diaries. Originally published: London: Dent, 1978.
This work conveys the spirit of the British Tommy, weaving a concise analysis of the British Army in the First World War with first-hand accounts taken from uncensored letters and diaries. Originally published: London: Dent, 1978.
The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. Here, Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts from kings and…
The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. Empires fell, others were crippled and new contenders emerged. Economies crashed, and millions would be affected by the Depression that followed.
The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of history. Empires fell, others were crippled and new contenders emerged. Markets crashed, and millions would be affected by the Depression that followed. This book presents a history of the conflict w…
In December 1916, Harry Lamin had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. This title includes Harry's letters to his family that details various things from the action in battle to the often amusing incidents of life amongst his comr…
The year was 1916 and the majority had no idea of the reality of the trenches of the Somme, of the pale faced, traumatised soldiers they would encounter there, of the innumerable, awful contradictions of war. Private Lynch was one of those who survived his time in the trenches. …
