The Great War, 1914-1918: A pictorial history
By John Terraine.
Description
At the time of publication the Great War, after a lapse of fifty years, had passed into history. This was the war which, in Kaiser Wilhelm's words, was to be over "before the leaves fall" but which instead blew into a holocaust that blazed from 1914 to 1918 and drew into its fiery center the United States and all the nations of Europe except Spain and Scandinavia. During its course, even at a cautious estimate, more than twelve million lives were destroyed on the battlefields, beneath the oceans, in hospitals, by madness and disease. Even if inevitable, even if, in Ambassador...
ISBN(s)
0385125755, 9780385125758
