The definitive series aboutthe global conflict
The popular view of the
First World War is dominated by cliché. Young British soldiers, many of them
budding poets, were led to early and ghastly deaths in muddy wastes by
incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. Although clichés
are not necessarily lies, they are at best a selective view of the truth.
This is a stunning account
of the hostilities which offers new interpretations of and insights into one of
the defining events of the twentieth century. For the first time, it offers a
truly global vision of a conflict which is often misconceived as a prolonged
skirmish on the Western Front.
Accessible, compelling and
utterly convincing, this is modern history revealed at its finest.
