- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (12 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316861278
- ISBN-13: 978-0316861274
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,190,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Independent, Kenneth O Morgan, 13 May 2005
'Charles Williams's masterly book is a triumph of balance, sustained scholarship and readability ... riveting'
Literary Review, May 2005
'Extraordinary ... no intelligent reader will be able to avoid revising his thoughts after reading this magnificent biography'
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An excellent and absorbing read. Probably the best review of the First World War I have encountered. From the French perspective it clearly shows who won the war, and it certainly was not the British or the Americans.
The manner in which Petain advanced his military and political careers from such humble beginnings is nothing short of miraculous. But the background information on how the generals and politicians of all sides lived during the conflicts, at times when they were sending thousands upon thousands of soldiers to their death is astonishing. Not for them even the sound of the guns; least of all the terror inflicted by them was quite out of their picture.
Lord Charles Williams has done a wonderful job piecing all this information together, for which I am sure he must be proud.
The manner in which Petain advanced his military and political careers from such humble beginnings is nothing short of miraculous. But the background information on how the generals and politicians of all sides lived during the conflicts, at times when they were sending thousands upon thousands of soldiers to their death is astonishing. Not for them even the sound of the guns; least of all the terror inflicted by them was quite out of their picture.
Lord Charles Williams has done a wonderful job piecing all this information together, for which I am sure he must be proud.
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