World War I. Gilbert M.

No one wanted this war to begin, but as a result of the plexus of circumstances that may seem random, it turned out to be inevitable. Participants of the flared conflict believed that the war would not last long and by the Christmas of 1914 it would end with their complete victory, but the truce was signed only four years later, in November 1918. The First World War led to innumerable suffering and victims on the fronts and in the rear, to epidemics, genocide, the collapse of the great empires and revolutions. She changed the fate of the world and redrawed his cards. Many hoped that this war, which was called the Great, would be the last in history, but it turned out to be the forerunner of the even more destructive World War II. The world -famous British historian Sir Martin Gilbert wrote the full history of the First World War, based on documentary sources, established facts and stories of eyewitnesses, and managed to convincingly reveal its causes and state the consequences. He managed to show the human price of this war, which claimed and crippled millions of lives, through the prism of the stories of its individual participants, among whom were heroes and deserters.