TAYLOR : Illustrated history of the First World War (fülszöveg)
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On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by a schoolboy in the Bosnian town of Sarajevo. Austria-Hungary, backed by Germany, seized the chance to humiliate Serbia. Russia backed Serbia, and the German war machine rolled into action. In August 1914, the First World War began: the war to end war, the war to make the world safe for democracy. What was the war about? Why did the people fight it with such enthusiasm and endure such hardships? Why did it go on so long?
In these pages, A. J. P. Taylor discusses the military campaigns and the failure of the generals in every army to solve the problems which confronted them. He shows how the projected war of movement turned into a war of attrition. He recaptures brilliantly the mud and futility of life in the trenches. His book is also a political history. Mr. Taylor makes it clear that the peoples everywhere believed that they were fighting in the cause of national defense. Yet every country had also ambitions of conquest and, mixed up with these, high ideals as well. The statesmen, like the soldiers, were bewildered by events, though they occasionally rose to the challenge. The narrative is presented in Mr. Taylor's taut, compact style. The tumultuous years are made clear in six vivid chapters.
This is an illustrated history, containing more than 220 photographs chosen with meticulous care so as to illuminate Mr. Taylor's masterly text. There have been many books on the First World War but never before have words and illustrations been married so effectively.
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