The First World War - Hew Strachan

Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His ongoing three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference work: Max Hastings called it 'one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation', while Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievement'.
Now, Hew Strachan brings his immense knowledge to a one-volume work aimed squarely at the general reader. Returning received wisdom about the war completely on its head, he pays tribute to the men who planned and executed the war, seeing it not as a shocking waste of human life, but as a necessary conflict that utterly transformed the twentieth century. Taking a truly global view of the war, he redresses the idea that it was a prolonged skirmish on the Western Front. Rigorously researched, superbly written, THE FIRST WORLD WAR will take its place as one of the finest works in the literature of war.