- Published: 31 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781407064123
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 544
The First World War
- Published: 31 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781407064123
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 544
A splendid achievement. Many years of research, distilled with craft and conveyed in meticulous prose, make this the definitive book on the Great War… An enthralling and often very moving account of one of the great tragedies of modern history
Good Book Guide
A splendidly readable account of the war on all fronts, from its political and cultural origins to its bloody conclusion... Compelling.
Max Wilkinson, Financial Times
Beautifully written and full of telling detail... The best overall account for the general reader that has appeared since that of Cyril Falls nearly forty years ago.
Michael Howard, Times Literary Supplement
Excellent... The First World War tells the story with passion, sanity and the military historian's eye for overall strategy.
Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday
John Keegan's The First World War can take its place alongside the other defining works he has written... The best and most approachable introduction to the war.
David Horspool, Guardian
Magisterial in its scope, beautifully written and literally unputdownable... I cannot recommend Keegan's book too highly.
Julian Critchley, Scotsman
Nobody describes a battle as Keegan does, vividly relating the unfolding events to the contours of the field of combat... This book is a kind of war memorial. As first-hand memory fades, The First World War honours the dead as only true history can.
Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times