The pity of war
The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this book the author asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on...
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Penguin Books
1998
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| 300 | |a xliii, 563 p., [32] p. of plates |b ill. |c 20 cm. | ||
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