Facing Armageddon is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants' experience. The book is a classic in the field.... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book is full of lucid essays on many different aspects of the war: its conduct, its effects, the way it has been memorialized, the way it has been remembered/depicted in the arts, etc. A very broad-ranging set of considerations written in readable (not "academic," jargon-filled) prose. Worth the money for anyone interested in the war.
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