The First World War -

Hew Strachan

Viking Adult

2004

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780670032952

The author, Hew Strachan, is the Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University. This one-volume work of summary is based on some twenty years of research for his three-volume history of World War I, the first volume of which, To Arms, was published in 2001. The ten chapters of this book provide the narrative framework for an accompanying ten-part television series produced by Channel 4 in Britain.

His central theme is that World War I shaped the world for the rest of the 20th Century and ‘was emphatically not a war without meaning or purpose’. A key supporting theme of the work is that it was truly a world war, both in geographical extent and in why it was fought between global and would-be global powers.