The first world war. Martin Gilbert. Gift book bound in leather.

The human cost of war through documents, heroes and deserters

The first world war. Martin Gilbert. Gift book bound in leather.

Contents:
No one wanted this war began, but the result plexus of circumstances that may seem accidental, it was inevitable. Participants inflames the conflict believed that the war wouldn't last long and by Christmas 1914, will end in their complete victory, but a truce was signed only four years later, in November 1918. The first world war led to untold suffering and sacrifice at the front and in the rear, to epidemics, genocide, disintegration of great empires and revolutions. She changed the fate of the world and redrew the map. Many had hoped that this war, called the great, will be the last in history, but it was the forerunner of the even more destructive Second world war. World-renowned British historian sir Martin Gilbert has written the definitive history of the First world war, based on documentary sources, established facts and eyewitnesses, and managed to convincingly reveal its causes and outline the investigation. He was able to show the human cost of this war that killed and maimed millions of lives, through the prism of the individual stories of its participants, among whom were the heroes and deserters.

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Back cover - made of genuine leather.

Bookend - silver.

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