The Great War
A Combat History of the First World War

A Military History of the War. This is a focused and quick account of the Great War through the lens of a British military historian, Peter Hart. In summary it is a very accomplished account which delivers exactly what you would expect. It is hard to be disappointed by this book. Hart starts with bri......more

This is a well written and engaging combat history of the war, and a recommended 'single volume' history. It is strong on the military strategy and decision making and events, interspersed with plenty of quotations from participants to avoid the story becoming too esoteric. The book doesn't focus on......more

Peter Hart's "The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War" is exactly what the title states. It is a one-volume campaign history of World War I. The book covers the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the sea war, Gallipoli, the Sinai and Palestinian Fronts, the Mesopotamian Front, the Salo......more

Peter Hart's The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War provides a solid, if not groundbreaking overview of that conflict. Hart, a long time oral historian at the Imperial War Museum, makes excellent work of firsthand accounts, balancing top-level strategic accounts of battles and campai......more