The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller from one of our most eminent military historians, John Keegan.
It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medi.
A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death.
The First World War created the modern world.
The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller from one of our most eminent military historians, John Keegan