Description
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentieth--and then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well.
In World War One, Norman Stone, one of the world's greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse and witty short history of the war. A captivating, brisk narrative, World War One is Stone's masterful effort to make sense of one of the twentieth century's pivotal conflicts.
Author: Norman Stone
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 04/27/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.08h x 6.34w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780465019182
ISBN10: 0465019188
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War I
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
- History | Europe | General
About the Author
Norman Stone has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent, where he is now Director of the Turkish-Russian Center. Stone is the author of World War One, The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize), and Europe Transformed.