World War One
A Short History
$36.76
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2008
Summary
In World War One: A Short History, Norman Stone provides a terse, opinionated, and wry account of the First World War.
In 1914, a new kind of war and a new kind of world emerged. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors’ empires were fatally damaged. The First World War marked a revolution in the technology of slaughter as trench warfare, artillery barrages, tanks, and chemical warfare made thei…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141031569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141031565 |
| Author: | Norman Stone |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 18mm |
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Bold, provocative and witty … one of the outstanding historians of our age
Bold, provocative and witty … one of the outstanding historians of our age * Spectator *
Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone’s short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel * Literary Review *
One of the most original modern commentaries on the conflict … this stimulating work can be read for pleasure in an afternoon, even if you are not particularly interested in World War One. That truly is the mark of a great history book * Evening Standard *
Exhilarating … scintillating … a heady cocktail * Observer *
Entertaining and insightful … one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit – Tibor Fischer * Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year *
A corker of a book … brings more clarity to this complex, much-written about subject than some historians manage to do in books three or four times as long * History Today *
About The Author
Norman Stone
Norman Stone is one of Britain’s most celebrated historians. For the period 1984-97 he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Professor Stone’s publications include The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (Winner of the Wolfson Prize and published by Penguin) and Hitler and Europe Transformed. He lives in Oxford and Istanbul.
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