The first world war in 3 volumes. Gift books bound in leather.

Contents:
Volume 1. The first world war. The catastrophe of 1914. Max Hastings.
On the eve of the centenary of the First world war, the famous historian Max Hastings examines the causes of the disaster, calling the main culprits of the conflict Germany and Austria-Hungary. Before us unfolds a majestic battle canvas in the Western and Eastern fronts. We are witnessing diplomatic negotiations and military actions, get acquainted with hundreds of contemporaries — from the largest military commanders, writers and doctors to ordinary soldiers, sailors and civilian residents. Bright, dynamic narrative creates a sense of presence and belonging and is able to capture not only fans of historical research and military memoirs.

Volume 2. The first world war. Martin Gilbert.
No one wanted this war began, but the result plexus of circumstances that may seem accidental, it was inevitable. Participants inflames the conflict believed that the war wouldn't last long and by Christmas 1914, will end in their complete victory, but a truce was signed only four years later, in November 1918. The first world war led to untold suffering and sacrifice at the front and in the rear, to epidemics, genocide, disintegration of great empires and revolutions. She changed the fate of the world and redrew the map. Many had hoped that this war, called the great, will be the last in history, but it was the forerunner of the even more destructive Second world war. World-renowned British historian sir Martin Gilbert has written the definitive history of the First world war, based on documentary sources, established facts and eyewitnesses, and managed to convincingly reveal its causes and outline the investigation. He was able to show the human cost of this war that killed and maimed millions of lives, through the prism of the individual stories of its participants, among whom were the heroes and deserters.

Volume 3. The first world war. Andrei Zaionchkovskii.
The first world war 1914-1918 - a huge fire that engulfed the beginning of the XX century most of the countries and continents. This global conflict that changed the lives of all people in the world, completely redrew the political map of Europe, brought unprecedented destruction resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people. In the fire of the great war ceased to exist four world empires: Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Ottoman.
Enough lessons delivered mankind from this social disaster? The answers to many current issues of the domestic, the reader will find in the book of the eyewitness and participant of those events Milardovich Andrei Zaionchkovskii (1862-1926). A professional soldier, member of the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, the famous theorist and practitioner of military Affairs, whose achievements were awarded with orders, medals and Golden weapons "For courage", A. M. Zaionchkovskii knew about the secret mechanisms that triggered this bloody conflict firsthand. He survived and has created an outstanding work about the course of the war, in the fields where he had to fight.
This publication is the work of A. M. Zaionchkovskii marks the 100th anniversary of the First world war. It includes an additional section "Preparing the world war" published in 1926 and more out of print; maps and charts, made Lieutenant Colonel of the General staff of the Russian Empire, one of the first commanders of the red army Aleksandr Nikolaevich De Lazari for the first edition and Atlas "of the World imperialist war of 1914-1918". The present edition is profusely illustrated with photographs from public and private archives, rare documentary materials which became available only in the XXI century thanks to the efforts of fundamental Open library EVROPEANA.

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