World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. ""Total war"" emerged as a grim, mature re…
Focusing on the decisive engagements of World War I, the author explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders, looking at the changing weapons and tactics and offering his own assessment on what brought about the war's outcome.
Focusing on the decisive engagements of World War I, the author explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders, looking at the changing weapons and tactics and offering his own assessment on what brought about the war's outcome.
Focusing on the decisive engagements of World War I, the author explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders, looking at the changing weapons and tactics and offering his own assessment on what brought about the war's outcome.
Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict, seeking to understand the direct consequences of the cataclysmic event that began a century ago. Focusing on the dicisive engagements, Hart explores the challenges faced by the commanders on all sides. He su…
Focusing on the decisive engagements of World War I, the author explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders, looking at the changing weapons and tactics and offering his own assessment on what brought about the war's outcome.
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. ""Total war"" emerged as a grim, mature re…
Scope and content: "Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless com…
"Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the F…
"Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the F…
"Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the F…
"Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the F…