The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Mainland Spain
- Publisher BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
- ISBN13 9780826440938
- ISBN10 0826440932
- Type Book
- Pages 337
- Published 2011
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
Universal History ContemporaryThe Great War and the Making of the Modern World
Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The First World War was the Great War for its leading participants. In revisiting the events of 1914-1918 a century on, Jeremy Black considers how we now look at the impact of the conflict across the globe and how it came to be the First World War in our consciousness. For millions, both soldiers and civilians, the conflict proved fatal. The suffering and loss of the war provides much of its resonance and significance, but this book seeks to throw light beyond this, not least in asking how it ended in victory and defeat. Casting aside the conventional narrative, Jeremy Black investigates not only the key events of the war, but its consequences in restructuring the old order. As its significance has changed with time, and not only with the loss of first-hand testimony, Black considers the struggle in its full historical context. And finally he also analyses its memorialisation today.