· Really a precis of a much bigger (three-volume) work on the Great War, The First World War is an exceptionally concise and informative overview of the entire war. With clean prose, Strachan makes two main points about the war. First, the conflict, like its successor twenty-one years later, was a truly global struggle which involved. As seen on the BBC - The First World War is the definitive documentary series (based on the book by Hew Strachan) about the global conflict which shaped the. Hew Strachan (winner of the Pritzker Military Museum Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing) is the Chichele Professor of the History of War and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford bltadwin.ru editor of The Oxford History of the First World War, he is writing a three-volume history of the First World War, the first volume of which was published in.
The First World War () is a ten-part Channel 4 documentary television series surveying the history of World War I (). It is based on the book of the same name by Oxford history professor Hew Strachan. (Additionally, a tie-in book of participant letters and diaries — A War in Words () by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis — was published for the series.). Hew Strachan was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded an Hon. bltadwin.ru, (Paisley) He is also Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was successively Research Fellow, Admissions Tutor and Senior Tutor, From to he was Professor of. Until recently my knowledge of the First World War was pretty minimal, but buoyed on by the various centenary commemorations and the knowledge that one of my relatives died fighting in Belgium, I decided to seek out a readable yet comprehensive history of the conflict. Compared to some of the longer tomes on WWI, Hew Strachan's account is a.
History, politics, literature, propaganda. Share. Posted 7 December, I was really pleased with Hew Strachan's first volume - he covered all the military, political and historical viewpoints in really serious depth, and it was also highly readable. His promised 3-volume series looked like becoming the definitive history of the war. "'Definitive', proclaims the blurb accompanying the first volume of Hew Strachan's magnificent new history of the first world war, and definitive it is. There will be two further volumes The result will be a scholarly triumph. In a field cluttered with competitors Mr. Strachan will be lengths ahead."--The Economist. The First World War: A New Illustrated History by Strachan, Hew. Skip to content. by Strachan, Hew. Used; Condition Used - Good ISBN 10 ISBN
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