First published in 1930, Liddell Hart's classic history of the First World War is the work of a leading military analyst, but also of a compassionate and uniquely original thinker. Sir Basil Liddell Hart was the author of more than thirty books and a world renowned lecturer in strategy and tactics; a man who is not simply a prophet and a critic, but a historian of great rank.
The best one-volume history of the First World War ever likely to be written, immensely readable and informative and remarkable for its clarity and objectivity and for analysis undistorted by professional prejudice or by bitterness of the unrecallable past. For those wishing to know what happened in World War I, this is the best place to begin.
