Showing posts with label War to End All Wars. Show all posts
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Monday, July 19, 2010

The War To End All Wars: WWI by Russell Freedman

Clarion Books
August 2010
176 pgs.

Summary
The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands of casualties all contributed to the "great war," which people hoped and believed would be the only conflict of its kind. In this clear and authoritative account, the author shows the ways in which the seeds of a second world war were sown in the first. Numerous archival photographs give the often disturbing subject matter a moving visual counterpart