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A detailed and enthralling account of this crucial period of history. The author provides us with many vivid portraits of the war itself, its aftermath and its’ participants – like Lloyd George, Siegfried Sassoon, Herbert Hoover, Walter Rathenau and many others. We are presented with an authentic painting of the era – the trenches of the Western Front, the sad anarchy and brutality that reigned in Eastern Europe where the killings continued long after November 11th, 1918.Mr. Dallas has a unique
The last year of the WWI as seen from five capitals. As such, it is centered on Europe and the Unite States. He does provide a detailed account of the offensives of the year. Instead of breaking down the German spring offensive and Entente summer counter offensive, Dallas depicts a massive movement of men. This is an interesting and useful way to look at the year after years of stalemate.
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I like the idea of a book on how wars end. I also enjoyed his book on 1945.If you want to know of the 1914-1918 war then read "A World Undone" first.If you want to know how it started - then go for "Guns of August."I have read on Amazon some reviews that called this book into account because Dallas did not particularly value the American feats of arms in WWI - which didn't go down well with those reviewers.What I found particularly interesting was the pre-nazi Germany that emerged. I had been ta...
Sometimes the toughest history to write is the "glue logic", the narrative that covers the world between the cracks. "1918" is such a book. The world has plenty of books about the 1919 peace conferences at Versailles, about the major battles of WW1, about the Russian revolution, but Dallas aims for a history that covers the weaving together of all these elements. He largely succeeds. In the same way that "A Peace to End All Peace" and "From Eden to Armageddon" cover the little-known realm of imp...
Excellent detailed narrative covering the last 6 months of WWI and about 6 months post Armistice. Chock full of insights and great character descriptions including a very unfavorable picture of President Wilson. I feel this book fills a void. Everyone wants to write about how the war started, and too few analyze deeply how it was ended. One revelation for me was that the armistice only ended fighting on the Western Front. In fact, more people died from November 1918 to 1922 in central and easter...
I realize the book is called 1918, so that, by this point, The Great War is nearly done, but I really feel this book would have benefitted from more than a paragraph about what went on to trigger the First World War. I felt plopped into the middle of a book/story, and the disjointed, lack of cohesiveness to the writing/story-telling didn't help at all.I read 75 pages and they were a slog. I'm going to find another book to explain the First World War to me, and once I understand it, I WON'T be pi...
