World War I seen from three sides, a recruit joining the front near Ypres, the Red Baron, Germany’s ace pilot, and the American Chief in Europe. Each chapter concentrates on the person’s life at that time, giving slices of history in a friendly and readable way.
'A gripping account of World War I - from tactics to strategy. The reader feels the horror of the trenches in France' General Tommy Franks (US Army, Ret'd)
‘An epic account…a gruesomely graphic portrayal of the brutality and folly of total war…his descriptions of individual combat in the air and the mass slaughter on the ground are stark, vivid and gripping. He also offers compelling portraits of the politicians and generals whose strategies and decisions killed millions and left Europe a discontented wasteland’ Publishers Weekly
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About Jeff Shaara
Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure – two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born in 1952 into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
