The real war, 1914-1918 : with twenty-five maps

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry Sir 1895-1970 (Author).

Summary: Captain B.H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In The Real War, the author has fused exhaustive research and creative brilliance with brevity and precision. Thus we have in one volume the war transformed into literature -- an understandable, kaleidoscopic masterwork of military history. - Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0316525057 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9780316525053 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xii, 508 p., [2] p. of plates : maps ; 20 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, 1964, c1930.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-495) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The origins of the war -- The opposing forces and plans -- 1914 : The clinch -- 1915 : The deadlock -- 1916 : The "dog-fall" -- 1917 : The strain -- 1918 : The break -- Epilogue.