The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War Homefront History and more—all converged to produce

and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history

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racing toward the Rhine and forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to sue for peace

The final section also considers broader speculations about the impact of war on family forms and alternative social affiliations

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War Homefront History and more—all converged to produceDescription by Hew Strachan Paperback The 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