World War One [electronic resource] / Norman Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Norman, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentieth?and then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well. In World War One, Norman Stone, one of the world's greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse and witty short history of the war. A captivating, brisk narrative, W

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Introduction; a note on proper names; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; chapter seven; Some Sources; Index; about the author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-46047-1

0-7867-4462-6

OCLC:

436089927