World War One: A Short History Historical Fiction With his older brother gone

With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War

enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death

a neutral America is goaded into war

mostly unused

It killed more than half a million people in a matter of months

World War One: A Short History Historical Fiction With his older brother goneDescription by Norman Stone Paperback The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentiethand then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well. In World War One, Norman Stone, one