World War One
A Short History
April 2010
Trade Paperback · 240 Pages
$15.00 U.S. · $18.95 CAN · €10.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465019182
Basic Books
Trade Paperback · 240 Pages
$15.00 U.S. · $18.95 CAN · €10.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465019182
Basic Books
Recommended for These Courses
- Area Studies: Europe / General
- History: 20th Century
- History: General
- History: Military History and Affairs
- History: Modern History
- History: World War I
- Military History and Affairs: General
- Military History and Affairs: World War I
Description
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, World War One is Stone's masterful effort to make sense of one of the twentieth century's pivotal conflicts.
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.
About the Author
Norman Stone is the author of World War One, The Eastern Front 1914–1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize), and Europe Transformed. He has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Bilkent, where he is now Director of the Turkish-Russian Center. He lives in Oxford and Istanbul.