The first world war probes the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict and takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among europes crowned heads all of them related to one another by blood and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. I really enjoyed the first world war by john keegan. The first world war by john keegan, read by james langton by. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity which extended far beyond its european epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the victorian era and unleashed the demons of the twentieth century pestilence, military destruction and mass death and also the ideas which continue to shape our world today. The first world war by john keegan overdrive rakuten. John keegans books include the iraq war, intelligence in war, the first world war, the battle for history, the face of battle, war and our world, the masks of command, fields of battle, and a history of warfare. Sir john desmond patrick keegan obe frsl 15 may 1934 2 august 2012 was an english military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. Audiobook the second world war by john keegan part. Complete summary of john keegans the second world war. John keegans books include the iraq war, intelligence in war, the first world war, the battle for history, the face of battle, war and our world, the masks of. Keegan s history of the first world war opens, unexpectedly, by talking about adolf hitler, and what i liked about this book was the way it presented 191418 as just the opening convulsions in a longer twentiethcentury cataclysm to which it remains intimately connected. The first world war by john keegan penguin random house. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter.
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