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Article: Hew Strachan. The First World War.(New Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2004
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Hew Strachan. The First World War, Simon & Schuster, Hbk, 2003, ISBN 0743239598, $49.95
Hew Strachan, the Chichele Professor of History of War and Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University has produced a one-volume work aimed for the general reader.
The popular view of the First World War is dominated by misconceptions. Young British, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian born soldiers, led to early and ghastly deaths in muddy wastes by incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. Although such clichds are not necessarily lies, they are a selective view of the truth. Hew Strachan, building on his research for his mammoth ...