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Summary:

World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen before: Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, and four empires were destroyed. Even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. An overwhelming disaster from which the world is still recovering, World War One can seem baffling in its complexity. But now Norman Stone has composed a succinct history of the conflict --From publisher description.

Table of Contents:

• Outbreak
• 1914
• 1915
• 1916
• 1917
• 1918
• Aftermath.

Author/Creator:

Stone, Norman, 1941-2019

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

World War One [by Stone, N.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: World War One [by Stone, N.] (New York : Basic Books, 2009 — ISBN 0465013686; LCCN 2008936746; OCLC Number 246894686)

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918

World War (1914-1918)

1914-1918

General Notes:

Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

D521 .S855 2009eb

ISBNs:

9780786744626 (electronic bk.)
0786744626 (electronic bk.)
9780465013685 [Invalid]
0465013686 [Invalid]
9780141031569 (British ISBN) [Invalid]
0141031565 (British ISBN) [Invalid]
9780465019182 [Invalid]
0465019188 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

436089927