The First World War by John Keegan PAPERBACK 9780375700453

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022 The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient.... Keegan is...perhaps the best military historian of our day. \u2014The New York Times Book Review\n The First World War created the modern world. 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. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times\u2014modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society\u2014and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailet