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World War One : A Short History by Norman Stone (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Title: World War One: A Short History. Author: Stone, Norman (Author). Number of Pages: 226. Weight: 0.52 lbs. Publication Date: 2010-04-27. Publisher: BASIC BOOKS.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-100465019188
ISBN-139780465019182
eBay Product ID (ePID)102925786
Product Key Features
Book TitleWorld War One : a Short History
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicModern / 20th Century, Military / World War I, Europe / General
GenreHistory
AuthorNorman Stone
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.4 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsMilitary Review "Stone's book is a good overview of the war and worth reading." H-Net Reviews "The narrative has a rich sense of immediacy, accentuated with intimate details, as if Stone knew each figure personally.... Throw in a handful of references to poems, films, and novels both contemporary and modern, as Stone does, add dashes of jaunty, scornful judgments, and the result is indeed a literary tour de force. The phrase 'cannot put it down' does indeed come to mind."
Grade FromEighth Grade
Dewey Decimal940.3
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
SynopsisThe 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, World War One is Stone's masterful effort to make sense of one of the twentieth century's pivotal conflicts., After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even more than stability and demanded a massive indemnity from Germany in order to keep it from rearming. The results, as eminent historian Norman Stone describes in this authoritative history, were disastrous. In World War Two , Stone provides a remarkably concise account of the deadliest war of human history, showing how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of World War One. Adolf Hitler rode a tide of popular desperation and resentment to power in Germany, promptly making good on his promise to return the nation to its former economic and military strength. He bullied Europe into giving him his way, and in so doing backed the victors of the Great War into a corner. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany -- a decision that, Stone argues, was utterly irrational. Yet Hitler had driven the world mad, and the rekindling of European hostilities soon grew to a conflagration that spread across the globe, fanned by political and racial ideologies more poisonous -- and weaponry more destructive -- than the world had ever seen. With commanding expertise, Stone leads readers through the escalation, climax, and mournful denouement of this sprawling conflict. World War Two is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the twentieth century and its defining struggle.
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