The First World War: Illustrated History

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2002
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John Keegan's The First World War is already established as the classic single volume history of the conflict. This large-format edition has been carefully abridged and reshaped by the author to give an illustrative treatment both of the military, political and historical issues of the war, and of the experience of fighting it throughout the world on land, at sea and in the air.

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John Keegan's The First World War is already established as the classic single volume history of the conflict. This large-format edition has been carefully abridged and reshaped by the author to give an illustrative treatment both of the military, political and historical issues of the war, and of the experience of fighting it throughout the world on land, at sea and in the air.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 456
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 03 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 0712680403
ISBN 13: 9780712680400
Book Overview: 'Magisterial in its scope, beautifully written and literally unputdownable-I cannot recommend Keegan's book too highly.' Julian Critchley, Scotsman

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'Magisterial in its scope, beautifully written and literally unputdownable...I cannot recommend Keegan's book too highly.' Julian Critchley, Scotsman; 'Nobody describes a battle as Keegan does, vividly relating the unfolding events to the contours of the field of combat... This book is a kind of war memorial. As first-hand memory fades, The First World War honours the dead as only true history can.' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times

Author Bio

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.