Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced

By Hugh Cecil and Peter H. Liddle

Facing Armageddon is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants' experience. The book is a classic in the field. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe, including the USA, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Holland and the UK, describe their research into what civilians and servicemen passed through, on the land, the sea and in the air.

Their pioneering work is as important today as it was when the book was first published, for we can see clearly now how the First World War has shaped the fundamental character of the twentieth century. The Second World War and the Cold War were among its direct, long-term consequences. Without an awareness of its effects on the individuals and societies involved, perceptible even now, we cannot fully comprehend the modern world.

Facing Armageddon, lucidly written and vividly illustrated, is aimed at those specialists - students and general readers alike - who seek a deeper understanding of human conflict in our times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783461691
• ISBN13: 9781783461691
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 960 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

worthy of both a general and academic readership

This book is full of lucid essays on many different aspects of the war: its conduct, its effects, the way it has been memorialized, the way it has been remembered/depicted in the arts, etc. A very broad-ranging set of considerations written in readable (not "academic," jargon-filled) prose. Worth the money for anyone interested in the war.