by John Keegan · Pimlico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780712666459
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The First World War» is the historical essay by John Keegan, published by Pimlico in paperback (500 pages, in English).
John Keegan examines the First World War as a conflict of unprecedented ferocity that closed Victorian prosperity and opened the twentieth century. The narrative covers Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli, addresses strategy, geography and technology, and underscores the human cost, the fall of the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires and its subsequent influence.
Published in 1999, the volume includes 24 photographic plates, 2 endpaper maps and 15 maps interspersed in the text.
For readers of military and twentieth-century history seeking a global view of the Great War, with strategic and human analysis.
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle.
