The American Heritage history of World War I (fülszöveg)
"In the Bosnian town of Sarajevo on the morning of June 28, 1914, a chauffeur misunderstood his instructions, made a wrong turn, tried too
late to correct his blunder, and so doing delivered his passengers to a point where a waiting assassin did not have to take aim to gun them down.
"Two rounds from one pistol and the world rocked. The crime was the small stone that, loosened, brings the avalanche."
So begins S. L. A. Marshall's compelling narrative for THE AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I, a book that tells – as no single volume has before – the story of the Great War, from Sarajevo to Versailles.
Ten million men died; another twenty million were wounded. But it was not alone in numbers that this was the Great War. The flame thrower, the tank, poison gas, were introduced. Cavalry became obsolete; air combat and submarine warfare came of age. Old dynasties tumbled; empires disintegrated; new nations appeared.
From the perspective of half a century, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I, in one 160,000-word volume, describes and analyzes the origins, course, and immediate aftermath of the colossal conflict. Vividly told by a great military historian, the narrative is documented with the finest collection of World War I pictures ever assembled in a single volume.
The story begins with a backward look at a smug and complacent world that had ensnared itself in a network of alliances. Out of this setting emerge the wily diplomats and statesmen who maneuvered and blundered their countries into positions that made a war inevitable. Once committed, the nations of Europe line up into two mighty opposing forces and both sides go jauntily into war, each confident that a conflict on such a gigantic scale will be over before it really begins. Then follow the strategies, the incredible errors, the unremitting slaughter of the next four years. The story ends with the ill-starred Treaty of Versailles, which sowed the seeds for the dictatorships that were to plunge the following generation into another World War.
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