HEW STRACHAN

Découvrez avec ce livre les premières photographies en couleurs de la guerre de 14-18.Des images frappantes et souvent inédites qui témoignent par leur force de l'intensité de ce conflit qui ébra

Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His ongoing three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference work: Max Hastings called it 'one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation', while Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievement'. Now, Hew Strachan brings his immense knowledge to a one-volume work aimed squarely at the general reader. The inspiration for and a companion volume to the major Channel 4 series of the same name, to which Hew has been chief consultant, THE FIRST WORLD WAR is a significant addition to the literature on this subject, taking as it does a uniquely global view of what is often misconceived as a prolonged skirmish on the Western Front. Exploring such theatres as the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire, Hew Strachan goes on to assess Britain's participation in the light of what became a struggle for the defence of liberalism, and show how the war shaped the 'short' twentieth century that followed it. Accessible, compelling and utterly convincing, this is a modern history writing at its finest.

Hew Strachan, a quien se considera el mejor conocedor de la historia de la primera guerra mundial, consigue transmitir al lector toda la grandeza y la tragedia de un conflicto que ha dejado una profunda huella en nuestro mundo. Para ello se ha planteado en esta obra un doble desafía: el de ofrecernos una visión global, que no sólo nos hable de los combates en los Balcanes y en los campos de Francia, sino que tome en cuenta las batallas decisivas que se libraron en Rusia, en África o en el Oriente próximo (donde los turcos convirtieron el conflicto en una guerra sangrienta y exterminaron a cientos de miles de cristianos armenios), y el de recuperar el sentido que la guerra tuvo para quienes combatieron en ella: las causas por las que lucharon, muchas de las cuales han seguido plenamente vigentes por lo menos hasta el fin de la guerra fría. El resultado es un espléndido relato, enriquecido por una abundante ilustración, poco o nada conocida, que incluye las primeras fotografías en color tomadas por los franceses en los campos de batalla.

To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. Ever since its outbreak in 1914, the causes of the First World War have been one of the major debates in world history. For some it was a war engineered by Germany, and a pointer towards Hitler. For others it was the product of miscalculation - a verdict whose poignancy is heightened by the knowledge of what followed. The Outbreak of the First World War eschews either extreme. Instead, it approaches the issues from the perspectives of those who grappled with conflicting priorities and vital national interests and considers the responses of their peoples and the so-called 'ideas of 1914'. Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford.

To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. This volume is the first full history of how the war was financed. It resulted in hyper-inflation in the 1920s and, in due course, in New York's displacement of London as the world's money market. Its effects are still with us today. Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford.