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Fight to the finish, the First World War - month by month, Allan Mallinson

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Fight to the finish, the First World War - month by month, Allan Mallinson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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portraitsillustrationsmapsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fight to the finish

Responsibility statement

Allan Mallinson

Sub title

the First World War - month by month

Summary

Looking at the First World War month by month reveals its complexity while preserving a sense of time. From the opening shots to the signing of the armistice, the First World War lasted almost 52 months. It was fought on land, sea and in the air. It became industrial, and unrestricted: poison gas, aerial bombing of cities, and the sinking without warning of merchantmen and passenger ships by submarines. Casualties, military and civilian, probably exceeded 40 million. Four empires collapsed during the course of the war - the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman. The First World War is almost impossible to comprehend. Based on the Allan Mallinson's monthly commentaries in The Times throughout the centenary, Fight to the Finish is a new and original portrait of the First World War

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