The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War - Hew Strachan - Softcover epic the Landsknecht tactics adapted far

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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War - Hew Strachan - Softcover epic the Landsknecht tactics adapted farThe First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany, Austria Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The Oxford Illustrated