The First World War
- ISBN-10
- 1471141950
- ISBN-13
- 9781471141959
- Series
- The First World War
- Category
- World War, 1914-1918
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Hew Strachan
Description
In this highly acclaimed short history of the First World War, Strachan argues that the conflict became global long before the involvement of the USA, and discusses the war in Africa, the Far East and Eastern Europe, and the German-Ottoman ...
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