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|title=The Great War
|sort=Great War, The
|publisher=Profile Books
|date=April 2013
|website=http://peterhartmilitary.com
|summary=A thorough account encompassing all aspects of the Great War, discussing how it affected the world scene and the lives of ordinary people.
|cover=1846682460
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There are certain aspects of world history that we are duty-bound to teach to each generation. World War I was called 'The Great War' for a reason; it changed the world scene irrevocably and is regarded as the single most important event of the twentieth century. The war introduced dreadful new weapons designed to slaughter as many people as possibly possible with maximum efficiency, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.
''The Great War'' is a remarkable book, thoroughly covering every aspect of the conflict in painstaking detail. It examines the sweeping political disputes that set the world scene leading up to the war and then zooms in to minutiae of life in the trenches by means of eyewitness accounts from both sides of the battlefield.
For more accounts of life in the trenches, try [[The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War by Ronald Skirth and Duncan Barrett]] or [[The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme by Gavin Stamp]]
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