The First World War

London England: Pimlico. Very Good. 1998. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0712666451 Paperback 1st Paperback Edition. The First World War. Price clipped. The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparreled ferocity, which extended far beyond its Eruopean epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era and unleashed the demons of the twentieth century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death - and also the ideas which continue to shape our world today - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society. It was of course foremost a military conflict, and the battles on land, sea and in the air form the narrative heart of his study, with some fascinating new interpretations of the military events. But the war also acted as a formidable engine for change throughout the world, and this too is brilliantly revealed in this book. At its heart, however, is the terrible human cost of this unparrleled conflict, the loss which, however vastly extended, remains personal and individual. Illustrated. 500 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .