Volume 50, Number 2 · February 13, 2003
The Jihad of 1914
By Niall Ferguson
The First World War, Volume I: To Arms
by Hew Strachan
Oxford University Press,1,227 pp., $39.95
Most books about the First World War might as well be called 'Yet Another European War.' The story begins with the assassination at Sarajevo and ends with the peace treaty at Versailles. Nearly all the decisive fighting takes place along a front stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The other theaters of war are European too: the borderlands of Russia, Prussia, and Poland, the Balkans and the Alps. Even the Gallipoli peninsula is on the European side of the Dardanelles. In the first volume of his new and voluminous Oxford history of the war, however, Hew Strachan has set out to put the 'world' back into the First World War.
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