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The First World War

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#386891-UG10
Titel	The First World War
Auteur	Keegan, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Hutchinson
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	0091801788
ISBN13	9780091801786
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, map on endpapers, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The highest praise greeted the hardcover publication of this engrossing, brilliant book - THE definitive story of the Great War, the war that created the modern world, unleashing the terrors of mechanized warfare and mass death, and establishing the political fault lines that imperil European stability to this day. Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the doomed diplomatic efforts to avert the catastrophe; he probes the haunting question of how a civilization at the height of its cultural achievement and prosperity could propel itself toward ruin with so little provocation; his panoramic narrative brings to life the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend - Verdun, the Somme, Gallipoli - as with profound sympathy, he explores the minds of Joffe, Haig and Hindenburg, the fame... (Lees verder)d generals who directed the cataclysm. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
Pagina's	500
Conditie	Goed — Edges dust jacket slightly worn, price sticker on dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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