The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan; The Month That Changed the World: July 1914 by Gordon Martel; The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain’s Rush to War, 1914 by Douglas Newton; A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro; Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War by Taylor Downing; Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott; Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War by Jerry White - review by Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones

Beyond the Trenches

  • Margaret MacMillan, 
  • Gordon Martel, 
  • Douglas Newton, 
  • Geoffrey Wawro, 
  • Taylor Downing, 
  • William Philpott, 
  • Jerry White
 

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