A Brief History of the Great War

ISBN: 9781330150610 出版年：2016 页码：506 Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes Forgotten Books

The following pages constitute a connected story of the late war from its origins to the conclusion of the Peace of'versailles, not for the edification of experts, military or other, but rather for the enlightenment of the general reader and student. A definitive history of the war will never be written; it is much too early, of course, even to attempt it. All that the author has here essayed to do is to Sketch tentatively what seem to him its broad outlines domestic politics of the several belligerents no less than army campaigns and naval battles, and in present ing his synthesis to be guided so far as in him lay by an honest desire to put heat and passion aside and to write candidly and objectively for the instruction of the succeeding generation.