A History of the Great War: 1914-1918 - Softcover

9780897333153: A History of the Great War: 1914-1918
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"... for my money it's the best history of World War I." -Robert Cowley, Military Historical Review "... it is by far the best short history of the war in English." -American Historical Review "He has a remarkable gift for description... the book is admirably written."-New York Times "This is perhaps the best one-volume history of the war in English." -Foreign Affairs"
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Since its first publication in 1934, ""C.R.M.F. Cruttwell's A History of the Great War"" has been considered the classic account of the First World War.The author's experiences as an infantry officer in France and later as an intelligence officer at the British War Office gave him a front-row seat to the conflict, which he describes with exemplary objectivity and reason. His history remains invaluable for its unique, detailed understanding of the causes and consequences of the war by one who lived through it.Cruttwell's narrative begins with the rise of nationalism in Europe, and ends with the fall of Constantinople to Allied forces, documenting not only battles, advances and retreats, but also the singular individuals who influenced the war's outcome. His prose is vivid and unsentimental, at times critical, and always loyal to the facts and events he witnessed during the 'war to end all wars.' The author's concluding remarks on the nature of the war, written before the hegemonic rise of the United States, are chilling and interesting in light of current events: 'War between great states, equipped with all the resources of science, cannot now be regarded as 'an instrument of policy,"" he writes. 'It becomes inevitably a struggle for existence, in which no limit can be placed on the expenditure of men and money...[the War's] object became not merely to destroy the armed forces of the belligerents...but also to break the war-will of the peoples...in the latter states of the war the desire to make intolerable the lives of all enemies, without distinction of age and sex, was limited only by the capacity of fulfillment.'

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  • VerlagAcademy Chicago Publishers
  • Erscheinungsdatum2007
  • ISBN 10 0897333152
  • ISBN 13 9780897333153
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