THE GREAT WAR A Complete History of World War I,

The Great War: A Complete History of World War I The definitive single-volume history of the war that destroyed four empires, killed twenty million people, and created the modern world. In the summer of 1914, Europe danced on the edge of an abyss. Within six weeks, the continent had plunged into a war that no one wanted, no one could stop, and no one would survive unchanged. The Great War—as it was called, before there was a second—lasted four years, three months, and two weeks. It consumed thirty million soldiers, killed ten million of them, and wounded twenty million more. It destroyed the Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires. It gave birth to the Soviet Union, the League of Nations, and the modern Middle East. It set the stage for the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. It is the event from which all other events of the twentieth century flow. The Great War: A Complete History of World War I tells the story of this catastrophe from beginning to end. Drawing on decades of scholarship and a deep reading of primary sources—letters, diaries, memoirs, official histories—this book offers a comprehensive, accessible, and deeply human account of the war that changed everything. The narrative begins in the salons of Vienna and the chanceries of Berlin, tracing the alliances and rivalries that led to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the July Crisis that followed. It follows the armies of Europe as they march to the front—the German right wing through Belgium, the French left wing into Alsace-Lorraine, the British Expeditionary Force to Mons. It chronicles the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, the miracle on the Marne, and the race to the sea that created the trench system. It moves east to Tannenberg, where the German Eighth Army destroyed two Russian armies in four days, and south to Gallipoli, where the ANZAC legend was born in disaster. It covers the war at sea—Jutland, the U-boat campaign, the British blockade—and the war in the air—the Red Baron, the fighter aces, the birth of strategic bombing. You can get the bok here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4H27WQ5