1914-1918: the History of the First World War.(Book Review)

1914-1918: The History of the First World War David Stevenson Allen Lane, 729 pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 0-713-99208-5

THIS BOOK TAKES NO PRISONERS. Do not expect a scholarly canter through the old familiar battlefields with an understanding nod towards politicians or military leaders who can all be forgiven because they could not have foreseen to what consequences their decisions might lead. David Stevenson looks hard at the balance of forces on both sides of the European divide in 1914 and argues that, after years of jockeying for position, they were 'approximating ...

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