World War One: A Short History Historical Fiction edited by Paul O'Prey

edited by Paul O'Prey

enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death

at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles

and set against an idealized backdrop of soldiers

mostly unused

World War One: A Short History Historical Fiction edited by Paul O'PreyDescription by Norman Stone Paperback The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentiethand then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well. In World War One, Norman Stone, one