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THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: New Edition Hew Strachan, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2014, 400 pages
My grandfather fought in the First World War, but he would not talk much about it. This absence of information generated within me a deep interest in the conflict; thus, on my shelf are autobiographies, biographies, atlases, general histories, and specific histories on the Great War. Each provides insights into the conflict that initiated the "modern age." Missing from my shelf was an illustrated history of the topic, but the Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War fills that void nicely.
The Oxford Illustrated History is an anthology that fills a niche both for generalists and for military historians seeking concise information on the war. Although ordered strangely-maneuver warfare in 1914-1915 comes between the...