A classic history of the First World War from one of the greatest military thinkers of his time.
Sir Basil Liddell Hart was a military strategist and writer of great acclaim, and one of the world's outstanding teacher-historians. Born in Paris in 1895, he was educated at Cambridge before serving on the Western Front with the Yorkshire Light Infantry after which he was military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and The Times. He evolved several military tactical developments including the Battle Drill system and was an early advocate of airpower and armoured forces. He lectured on strategy and tactics at staff colleges in numerous countries. His many books include biographies of several great commanders, and The Other Side of the Hill - his interviews with the Second World War's highest-ranking German generals. He was knighted in 1966 and died in 1970.
Immensely readable and informative . . . belongs in the possession
of anyone interested in what the greatest British military thinker
of this century has to say
*Soldier*
Liddell Hart makes the complicated scene intelligible to the reader
with the minimum of effort, and yet incorporates an apt and telling
comments at every turn
*The Times Literary Supplement*
The outstanding military historian
*Sunday Express*
Scrupulously accurate, brilliantly lucid
*British Army Review*
Brilliant ... the best one-volume history of the First World War
ever likely to be wriiten
*Naval Review*
It was always his special talent to be able to express military
situations in telling and limpid phrases which would stick in the
reader's mind
*Daily Telegraph*
Remarkable for its clarity and objectivity ... it remains
outstanding: for those familiar with its subject, illuminating and
thought-provoking; for those new to it and wishing to know what
happened in World War I, the best place to begin
*Western Mail*
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