![]() About the Author Norman Stone has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent, where he is now Director of the Turkish-Russian Center. The phrase cannot put it down does indeed come to mind. Throw in a handful of references to poems, films, and novels both contemporary and modern, as Stone does, add dashes of jaunty, scornful judgments, and the result is indeed a literary tour de force. H-Net ReviewsThe narrative has a rich sense of immediacy, accentuated with intimate details, as if Stone knew each figure personally. Review Quotes Military Review Stones book is a good overview of the war and worth reading. A captivating, brisk narrative, World War One is Stones masterful effort to make sense of one of the twentieth centurys pivotal conflicts. ![]() In World War One, Norman Stone, one of the worlds greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse and witty short history of the war. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentieth-and then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well. ![]() ![]() Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors empires were fatally damaged. ![]() Book Synopsis The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. About the Book Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2007. ![]()
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