TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'This narrative of continent-wide chaos makes it easier to understand why order came to seem a supremely desirable objective in 1930s Europe, trumping freedom' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times 'Important and timely... obliges us to reconsider a period and a battlefront that has too often been neglected by histor...(展开全部)

TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'This narrative of continent-wide chaos makes it easier to understand why order came to seem a supremely desirable objective in 1930s Europe, trumping freedom' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times 'Important and timely... obliges us to reconsider a period and a battlefront that has too often been neglected by histor...(展开全部)

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(展开全部)

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(展开全部)

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 achievemen...(展开全部)

It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographs—including early color photographs— The First World War re-creates...(展开全部)

约翰•基根，伦敦《每日电讯报》防务主编，英国皇家文学学会会员，1998年BBC瑞思讲演人（Reith Lecturer），多年在英国桑霍斯特皇家军事学院讲授军事史课程，并任普林斯顿大学高级研究院研究员和瓦萨尔学院客座教授，是当代最优秀的军事史家之一。著有A History of Warfare, The Second World War, The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, Battle at Sea等。

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to, and were deformed by, the near-unbearable pressures of war. Every state involved f...(展开全部)

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues s...(展开全部)