The First World War
Keegan, John
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Quantity: 1About this Item
Illustrated with b/w plates. Trade paperback 1st Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 500 pages. Item Type: Book. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No inscriptions. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; History. ISBN: 0091801788. ISBN/EAN: 9780091801786. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 033524. Seller Inventory # 033524
Bibliographic Details
Title: The First World War
Publisher: Hutchinson
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition.
About this title
Keegan never tries to ram his learning down your throat. Where other authors have struggled to explain how Britain could ever allow itself to be dragged into such a war in 1914, Keegan keeps his account practical. The level of communications that we enjoy today just didn't exist then, and so it was much harder to keep track of what was going on. By the time a message had finally reached the person in question, the situation may have changed out of all recognition. Keegan applies this same "cock-up" theory of history to the rest of the war, principally the three great disasters at Gallipoli, the Somme, and Passchendaele. The generals didn't send all those troops to their deaths deliberately, Keegan argues; they did it out of incompetence and ineptitude, and because they had no idea of what was actually going on at the front.
While The First World War is not afraid to point the finger at those generals who deserve it, even Keegan has to admit he doesn't have all the answers. If it all seems so obviously futile and such a massive waste of life now, he asks, how could it have seemed worthwhile back then? Why did so many people carry on, knowing they would die? Why, indeed. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk
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