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World War I: How the Great War Made the Modern World Kindle Edition

by Burt Solomon (Editor)

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Read classic real-time coverage of the Great War from the Atlantic's archive, plus new essays on how we still live in the world the war made -- and how another world war could happen.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Great War, the Atlantic has published a special commemorative edition drawn from the magazine's archives, featuring dispatches from soldiers at the front and articles by such major writers and historical figures as Winston Churchill, H. G. Wells, Gertrude Stein, W. E. B. Du Bois, H. L. Mencken, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, Bertrand Russell, Arnold J. Toynbee, Barbara Tuchmann, Christopher Hitchens, and many others.

Experience history as Atlantic writers and readers experienced it at the time, watching the slow build-up to war and then its sudden rippling explosions as combat broke out; the brutal, violent--and sometimes darkly humorous--reality of life in the trenches; the savage peace that followed war, along with the failed attempts at a League of Nations, the rise of Hitler, and the rumblings of the next World War.

A rich collection of war reportage, vivid photography, and poetry, the issue also includes:

* The New York Times foreign affairs columnist Roger Cohen explaining why it's all too easy to imagine a third world war breaking out today.

* The nationally bestselling author Richard Rubin on America's decisive role in the war--and its strangely distant relationship to the war today.

* The Yale historian Jay Winter on how the war made the world we live in today by redrawing geopolitical boundaries, advancing the technology of killing, and changing the meaning of war.

* A photo essay showing the scarred battlefields of Europe--during the war and today.

* An illustrated timeline of the war

* A 1908 interview with Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II

*Multiple dispatches from the front that capture the tragedy and banality--and, rarely, the nobility--of the war as experienced by soldiers at the time.

Length: 270 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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File Size: 65143 KB
Print Length: 270 pages
Publication Date: July 28, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00M85J4SE
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Matt

The Great War we're still mopping up

October 1, 2014

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Sobering examination - via dozens of vignettes and articles - of the vast impact of The Great War. The introduction of trench and chemical warfare, the decimation of a generation of European youth, the experience of American doughboys, the catastrophe of treaty-writing at Versailles where pen strokes may as well have been signing the war declarations for WWII. And the long-arc impact of unintended consequences that we suffer from today, including the manic and arbitrary lines drawn all over the Mideast that gave rise to today's extremist terrorism. A must read for my and younger generations, who are far less literate of 20th century politics and war than we should be. As Santayana observed...

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Thoughts when considering war

November 1, 2014

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Excellent review of highlights of WW1; mostly short excerpts of life before, during and after the war. The Editors Note "The American Idea of War" by James Bennet and the Introduction "Yes, It Could Happen Again" by Roger Cohen are incredibly thought provoking articles and "must reads". The two articles alone are worth pondering and considering and are worth purchasing themselves accompanied by the insights of Burt Solomon's compilation. Highly recommend!

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Makes the Great War a living testament

December 25, 2014

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In this the 100th anniversary of the Great War, this book from The Atlantic, is essential in understanding the true motivations and fears of this dreadful war. From soldiers' front line letters back home to philosophers meditations on war itself, this book encapsulates the world before, during and after the years of 1914 to 1918.

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RLR

The Atlantic's Worl War I collection

March 14, 2015

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This is an excellent collection of mostly brief articles about WW I which neverthe less covers the subject very well. I recomment it highly.

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Connie S.

A great perspective of wwI

October 7, 2014

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WW I is a major event of the 20th century but mostly forgotten. Not only did the war set the stage for WW II but many of the conflicts in the midEast today. One of the most pressing realizations is after the tragedy of The Great War it was all done again twenty years latter. Nothing learned. History repeated.

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Dale G. Harvey

Important. Everyone should read this--before voting next time. ...

December 11, 2014

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Important. Everyone should read this--before voting next time.
One rarely reads about or considers the problems of body disposal or sanitation
in the trenches. Glory???

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Tampa Judy

Five Stars

November 1, 2014

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Wonderful way to understand a terrible war and how it all started. Will we ever learn?

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Patricio Reich

Thought it would be better

November 23, 2014

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Disappointing in that the articles are quite short and shallow

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