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First World War (Paperback)

by Martin Gilbert (Author)
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  • Paperback: 640 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (11 Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006376665
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006376668
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 382,362 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Highly-lucid history!succeeds at emblazoning the individual human cost as well as the wider perspective.' Daily Mail 'An immensely readable epitome of one of the most complex events in history.' Paul Johnson, Evening Standard 'Gilbert never forgets -- and never allows his readers to forget -- that the "embattled armies" were composed of millions of individuals, that it is the human experience and the human cost that matters. Numerous individual sidelights, culled from many sources, illuminate this immensely readable book!Gilbert's grasp of his material is enviable and the result admirable. This is everyman's history of the First World War.' Lyn Macdonald, The Sunday Times 'A stunning achievement.' Publishers Weekly 'A rewarding and significant book!splendidly recreates!(the) battles' widening circles of impact on families, friends, lovers and generations to come.' New York Times Book Review 'Gilbert's book is a remarkable achievement. Magnificent.' Dominic Hibberd, Times Higher Education Supplement 'A life-long aversion to reading about history was triumphantly cured by Martin Gilbert's immense and absorbing work!He makes the scope and sweep of the era read like a god novel except that we would never believe these events if they were fiction.' Allan Shiach, Scotsman


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By the author of "The Holocaust". This is a history of the Great War that charts the development and horror of the war, week by week, month by month. It covers the battles of the Eastern and Western Fronts, war at sea and in the air. It also records the human experience of war.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars All-encompassing beginners guide, 22 Jun 1999
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Many works have been published on WW1. What makes this one different is that all fronts are given detailed treatment, not just the Western front, but also the Eastern, Italian, Palestine, Mesopotanian, Salonica, Gallipoli, East Africa, the naval front, and to a certain extent the air war. The Pacific front is mentioned but not really covered. Gilbert attempts to personalise the war by filling the history with personal anecdotes, and this succeeds to an extent. You will not find a survey of what motivated millions of young men to sign up, but you will find the comments of one or two of them on the subject. The book is written without bias, although most of the material describes the Entente side. The political issues are well analysed, although military issues are barely considered. Breakthroughs just happen, with no further explanation. You will not guess from the book that tanks were present at Paschendaele, or indeed were prone to sinking in the mud. You will never read about German use of tanks, although you will see the statistic that the Germans built a tenth of the tanks that the Entente built. Blame for the war is laid firmly at the door of Austria, although the part played by their Chief of Staff in all this is barely mentioned. In conclusion, a good primer in that it is all-encompassing. Not much here however for the specialist, although uniquely the book shows the war also from the point of view of both European and Palestinian Jewry.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A FIRST-CLASS HISTORY, 2 April 2006
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This is certainly one of the finest single-volume histories of the First World War that I have read: concise, clear and comprehensive. I recommend it most highly both for content and readability. It covers land sea and air, the home fronts, all the fighting forces, the high commands, and the fighting men. A paricularly welcome feature of this excellent book are the stories of individuals. It is indeed a true masterpiece of the historian's craft.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of history, 1 Feb 2007
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This is a great history boook, one of the definitive histories of the great war. Very detailed and very accessible.

I msut have read a different book to the some of the critics on here, GIlbert has gone to great lenghths to write about other fronts and areas where the war was fought and what was going on. For example I remember a paragraph about a British Pacific island being visited by a German warship early in the war. The people on the island were so isolated and remote they werent aware of the war and had helped the warship with supplies, unthinkable in our world of instant varied communication. They are loads of stories like this from the Russian Front, the Italinan front, the war in China, Africa, the Pacific, the USA and of course the Western front.

This is great narrative history. I would give it 10 stars.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An ambivalent account
While Martin Gilbert is clearly writing from a position of huge erudition and learning, the structure of the book is such, in my humble opinion, that it is unclear what his exact... Read more
Published 12 months ago by John Ferngrove

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant narrative history
This is narrative history at its best. It covers events chronologically, moving from front to front, but without awkward breaks. Read more
Published 24 months ago by John Hopper

2.0 out of 5 stars small print
i loved martin gilberts world war 2 but this version has been shrunk down the letters are so small makes hard reading .AVOID or get a bigger copy
Published on 21 Oct 2007 by D. street

1.0 out of 5 stars What a biased book...
Precisely this is the reason why I don't like to read on any serious topic by a British ( or American ) writer ..full or propangda , biased opinions and lies they are . Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2003 by P. Singh

3.0 out of 5 stars A one-sided account of the war
Martin Gilbert impresses me with his knowledge of WWI. He has absolutely written the definitive history of the war from a British viewpoint. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2001 by Mattias Thuresson

2.0 out of 5 stars One sided
The title of the book should be: "The British at the war (and we have been so important and so good and we won the war)". Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb -how byzantine politics lead to the death of millions
This is an amazing book that attempts successfully to cover the factors leading up to WWI and what that actually meant in terms of human suffering. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars a reasonable history of WWI but ...
The first edition of this book was badly let down by blatant errors such as HMS Hampshire sunk by torpedoes when she actually hit a mine. Read more
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