The World Crisis 1911-1918

Oct 11, 2024 4:25 PM

Author:Winston Churchill,Martin Gilbert

Winston Churchill’s superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at sea and in the air and the advent of tanks and U-boats. He vividly describes the Lusitania’s sinking, the heroics of the Battle of Jutland, Verdun’s ‘soul-stirring frenzy’, the bloodshed of Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele, and the USA’s entry into the conflict. Rich with personal insights, this magisterial book is testament to the author’s role in the Great War’s conduct and outcome and fully demonstrates his brilliance as a historian.

Reviews

A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers

—— Tim Gardam , The Times

Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence

—— Richard Ovary , Telegraph

Richard Overy is writing at the height of his powers... The result is often startling, never less than fascinating

—— Adam Sisman , Observer

A thought provoking reappraisal of the war - deeply researched, complex and yet beautifully lucid

—— Correlli Barnett , Times Literary Supplement

We cannot know what Anne Darquier would have thought of Callil's book, but my guess is that she would have been as moved, astonished and impressed as any other reader

—— Ruth Scurr , The Times

Extraordinary...touching... a masterpiece of lacerating satire

—— Peter Conrad , Observer

In providing such a detailed picture of one of the functionaries of the Nazi empire, Callil has brilliantly shown how such a system could encourage and promote nonentities who were prepared to mouth the necessary phrases, and to ignore the call of humanity

—— Richard Griffiths , New Statesman

Bad Faith represents eight years of astonishing research...a remarkable book

—— Antony Beevor , Sunday Telegraph

A meticulous work of scholarship... [an] astonishing biography

—— Adam Thorpe , Guardian

Impeccably researched, Bad Faith is a work of great power and originality; Callil is to be congratulated on her achieivement

—— Sunday Times

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