Catastrophe: Europe Goes To War 1914 Max Hastings William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Amazon History Book Of Year 2013 Is A Magisterial Chronicle Calamity That Befell Europe In 1914 As Continent Shifted From Glamour Edwardian Era To Tragedy Total War Plunged Into 20Th Century’s First Terrible Act Self-Immolation – What Was Then Called Great On Eve Its Centenary Max Hastings Seeks Explain Both How Conflict Came About And Millions Men Women During Months Strife He Finds Evidence Overwhelming Austria Germany Must Accept Principal Blame For Outbreak While Followed Vast Argues Passionately Against ‘Poets’ View’ Not Worth Winning It Vital Freedom Says Kaiser’s Should Be Defeated His Narrative Early Battles Will Astonish Those Whose Images Are Simply Mud Wire Trenches Steel Helmets Describes French Army Marched Action Amid Virgin Rural Landscapes Uniforms Red Blue Led By Mounted Officers With Flags Flying Bands Playing Bloodiest Day Entire Western Fell 22 August When Lost 27 000 Dead Four Days Later At Le Cateau British Fought An Extraordinary Oncoming Germans One Last Kind October Cost They Held Allied Line Massive German Assaults Battle Ypres Author Also Brutal Struggles Serbia East Prussia Galicia Where Christmas Austrians Russians Serbs Had Inflicted Each Other Three Million Casualties This Offers Answers Huge Fascinating Question ‘What Happened 1914?’ Through Hastings’s Accustomed Blend Top-Down Bottom-Up Accounts Multitude Statesmen Generals Peasants Housewives Private Soldiers Seven Nations Pricks Myths Some Striking Controversial Judgements Host Readers Gripped Author’s International Best-Seller ‘All Hell Let Loose’ Seem Worthy Successor Σελίδες: 672 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm