The First World War - Softcover

"Eloquent.... Mr. Keegan captures the anamolous, even surreal quality of the war." -The New York Times

"The best one-volume account there is." -Civilization

"Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient.... Keegan is ...perhaps the best military historian of our day." -The New York Times Book Review

"Undoubtedly the world's most accessible and popular military historian." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Magisterial.... A miracle of concision." -The Weekly Standard

"An epic tale.... Makes us keenly aware of how battles are fought, won, and lost." -Fortune

From the author of Fields of Battle comes a monumental history of the Great War that chronicles the events of the conflict from early diplomatic efforts to avert war, through the nightmarish campaigns and battles, to the end of the war and the repercussions of World War I. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.