{"product_id":"0676972241-the_first_world_war","title":"The First World War","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eReview\\\u003cbr\u003eAt once the most readable and the most original of living military historians.\"--The New York Times\\\u003cbr\u003eIt takes a disciplined and enormously well-read scholar to bring order and meaning to the complexity of the Great War. It takes the artistry of a gifted storyteller to craft such technical detail into a page-turner. Mr Keegan does exactly that.\" -The Wall Street Journal\\\u003cbr\u003eOne of the foremost military thinkers today.-- Must reading for the Department of National Defence, politicians and anyone concerned about the future and the inherent nature of the human species.\" -Ottawa Sun\\\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\\\u003cbr\u003eKeegan 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 famed generals who directed the cataclysm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngineering \u0026amp; Transportation\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eEngineering\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Vintage Canada","offers":[{"title":"Used - Acceptable","offer_id":48635330363582,"sku":"0676972241-5","price":18.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/61jdnhsL9PL.jpg?v=1786131908","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0676972241-the_first_world_war","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}