The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Even more than World War II, the First World War continues to shape the politics and international relations of the world. Hew Strachan has done a masterful job of reexamining the causes, the major campaigns, and the consequences, compressing a lifetime of knowledge into a single definitive volume. Strachan re-creates this world-altering conflict both on and off the battlefield, the clash of ideologies between the colonial powers at the center of the war, the social and economic unrest that swept Europe both before and after, the military strategies employed with stunning success and tragic failure in the various theaters of war, and the terms of peace and why it didn't last.

Title from container. Compact discs.