The First World War [Keegan] Socks This is a well-illustrated history

This is a well-illustrated history

and a cause

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

and set against an idealized backdrop of soldiers

The First World War [Keegan] Socks This is a well-illustrated historyDescription 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