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World War I for Busy People: A Fast, Clear Guide to a War That Changed the Modern World
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General Military HistoryGeneral World HistoryWorld War I
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ISBN13: 9798187056934
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You know the images: mud, trenches, poppies, and a generation lost for nothing. Almost everything in that picture is wrong, or badly incomplete. The First World War is one of the most misremembered events in history. Most of us carry a few fragments, the Western Front, the barbed wire, a vague sense that it all started by accident and settled nothing. The real war was larger, stranger, and far more consequential. It toppled four empires. It drew the borders of the modern Middle East. It produced the Russian Revolution and set the fuse for the Second World War. And it was chosen, in a chain of deliberate decisions, by men who believed they could keep it small. This book hands you the whole of it, fast. Written for the busy reader who wants to understand the war without a shelf of thousand-page volumes, it covers the causes, the trenches, and the forgotten fronts most books skip: the vast war in the East, Gallipoli and the fall of the Ottomans, Italy's war in the Alps, the blockade at sea, and the birth of air power. Wherever a comfortable myth has taken hold, it sets the myth against the documented record and tells you what historians actually know. Inside this book:
- Why one assassination pulled six great powers into war in five weeks
- Why the trenches were a logical answer to firepower, not simple stupidity
- The truth about Verdun, the Somme, and whether the generals were fools
- How the war made the modern Middle East, and why it still shapes the news
- What is settled, what is contested, and what historians still argue about
Written in short, clear chapters, each closing with a single line worth remembering, this is popular history for readers who want the big picture told straight. If you have watched the documentaries but could never quite explain how it began or why it mattered, start here. Finish it, and you will understand the war that built the century you live in.
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