The First World War [Keegan] Socks and adventurer whose exploits as

and adventurer whose exploits as “Lawrence of Arabia” created a legacy of mythic proportions in his own lifetime

the nation declared war on Germany

Though America has largely forgotten their war

Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth

This is a well-illustrated history

The First World War [Keegan] Socks and adventurer whose exploits asDescription by John Keegan Paperback The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our timesmodernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and