THE FIRST WORLD WAR

The First World War - Book Review



The First World War - Book Review

Thesis Statement

This book “The First World War” has been taken for my book review. After reading and evaluating Hew Strachan's narration, it was easy to judge the circumstances and situations that caused the World on fire in the First World War. The following review of Strachan's work will include introduction, book content with a summary and arguments made by author with book analysis that ties together with the academic world reviews about the book with the conclusion.

Introduction

The book “The First World War” is written by Hew Strachan, it is a well compiled and clearly formulated by the author of the 20th century's in which mass destruction around different countries of the world has been explained extensively. This book was written on the extreme differences between two countries that are England and Germany having power over the sea, and disagreements on the European trade. The First World War involved many other states, much enmities and bitterness among them, and many small military flashes that combined to become a big fire (Strachan, 2004). Hew Strachan observed that the war was worldwide, with theaters in Asia and Africa, our idea and descriptions of it centered on Europe. Hew Strachan also comments that the typical narration overlook the “war", other contributors,” away from each other from the armed forces: namely, “diplomats and sailors, politicians and laborers, women and children.” Nevertheless in regions in which this war stroked hardest was oddly, England that experience many fatalities in this war comparing to the second war. There was a fear that memory of the first war will be lost therefore, Strachan's brings general idea into sharp focus the close grounds and significant flashes of the clash. The First World War finished with a shocking conclusion that more than 800,000 German soldiers died in 1918 only, follow by the deaths of many more due not to associated shot other than the entrance of the Spanish influenza that summer (Strachan, 2006: 34).

About the Author

Hew Strachan was Professor of the War History. He was editor of “The Oxford History of the First World War”, and being a researcher of “All Souls College, Oxford University”, he is scripting history of First World War in three volumes. His first volume was published in 2001 to wide approval. Professor Hew Strachan was a distinguished armed historian; he has labored at the extent with the mass of his documentary material. He has produced the first of three volumes planned to replace Cruttwell's History of the Great War (1934), a magnificently understandable and wide-ranging innovative description of the war that was thought to stop all wars. Strachan demonstrated the natures and personalities of different political and military chief who were leading in the battlefield. His book, that's among all the inspiring narrations for the exact and considerate way in which it plots a course history with a number of disreputable historic and graphical ...