The First World War

Experience how the First World War shaped the modern world, unleashing mechanized warfare and mass death, challenging Enlightenment ideals, and ushering in modernism, new psychology and medicine, and radical thoughts about economics and society. Military historian John Keegan provides a definitive account of the war, ranging from failed diplomacy and communication to nightmarish battles like Verdun, Somme, and Gallipoli. Keegan introduces the human aspect of the conflict, amplifying individual stories from heads of state like Nicholas II to the anonymous millions whose efforts went unrecorded. This brilliant and panoramic account of a vast and terrible conflict deserves its place among the classics of world history.