BALDWIN : World War I (fülszöveg)
THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 to 1918, in its scope, its violence and, above all, in its totality, ushered in the century of global war. Never before had a war absorbed so much of the total resources of so many combatants. Never had so many nations been involved. Never had the slaughter been so comprehensive and indiscriminate. And never had the participants staked so much for so little.
It was nearly fifty years ago that an assassin's bullet touched off the spark igniting the first great world conflict, and set in motion forces that changed the face of Europe and paved the way for the Bolshevik Revolution, an even greater later war, and the global turmoil in which we are still embroiled.
With the perspective of years, and out of his profound knowledge of military affairs, Hanson Baldwin has written the first comprehensive outline history of the Great War. While the accounts are brief, the book covers every aspect of the war, from the initial German invasion of France and Belgium through the complex maneuvers on the Eastern Front, to the campaigns in Gallipoli and the Middle East, the stalemates in Italy and in the trenches in France, and the war at sea.
World War I is a complete yet concise narrative of one of the most important events in history, the men who played the leading roles – Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Sir Douglas Haig, Foch, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicholas, Attaturk, Churchill, Pershing – and the forces that influenced them.
Valuable as a reference book, and at the same time extremely readable, World War I will be a standard book for many years to come.
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