The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth CenturyDescription by David Reynolds Paperback Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is compelling and original." Anne Chisolm, Chair of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Committee, and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. One of the most violent conflicts in the history of

Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas

Across the gulf between his society and theirs

but an in-depth examination of a single regiment that allows the reader to appreciate the intricacies of small-unit action and the problems associated with leading platoons

Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire

the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes tells these young men's saga as the story of a generation

Germany and its self-depicted hero

Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew

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Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history

from the western front to the Balkans to the Paris Peace Conference

changed by war

The black cat became the mascot of the then-newly formed Tank Corps