Max Hastings
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
- ISBN 13:
- 9780007519743
- author:
- Max Hastings
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- William Collins
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 672
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 4.4 x 19.7 cm
- Genre:
- History, Britain & Ireland, Edwardian and Early 20th Century 1901-1913
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The calamity that befell Europe in 1914 is a story of catastrophic proportions. Max Hastings' magisterial chronicle explores how the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war, and what befell millions of men and women during the first months of strife. Hastings argues passionately against the 'poets' view', that the war was not worth winning. He contends that it was vital to the freedom of Europe, and that the Kaiser's Germany must be defeated. The narrative of the early battles will astonish those whose images of the war are simply of mud, wire, trenches and steel helmets. The book offers a detailed account of the brutal struggles in Serbia, East Prussia and Galicia, where by Christmas the Germans, Austrians, Russians and Serbs had inflicted on each other three million casualties.
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