The First World War meditative excerpts and writings

meditative excerpts and writings

with hints of the brutality to come: “The head must bow and the back will have to bend / Wherever the darky may go / A few more days

a restless creature of fire

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The First World War meditative excerpts and writings"This serious, compact survey of the war's history stands out as the most well informed, accessible work available." (Los Angeles Times) Nearly a century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan (winner of the 2016 Pritzker Literature Award) argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. The First World War was a truly global conflict from the