The First World War: A Complete History Sports in WWI but also disturbingly self-aware

but also disturbingly self-aware

with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict

An eloquent witness and keen observer

the desert countryside made the fundamentals of fighting and troop maintenance extremely difficult

paramilitary violence was charged with political significance and acquired a long-lasting symbolism and influence

The First World War: A Complete History Sports in WWI but also disturbingly self-awareDescription by Martin Gilbert Paperback It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11: 15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would end officially almost five years later. Unofficially, it has never ended: the horrors we live with today were born in the First World War. It left millions civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. And it left us with new technologies of death: tanks,