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Alexandra Churchill | Nicolai Eberholst
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feminist
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North Africa
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The Great War
Western Front
World War 1

Product details

  • ISBN 9781035903429
  • Weight: 711g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 08 May 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

'Churchill and Eberholst put the world back into First World War.' Dan Snow

A remarkable, eyewitness-based view of the outbreak of the First World War.

As war broke out in the summer of 1914, not a nation on Earth understood the magnitude of what they were about to face. To win it, whole populations had to be mobilised, and neutrality was impossible. The scale of destruction was unfathomable and no life was left unchanged.

Our understanding of this complex conflict has been coloured by a blinkered approach to popular history. It has ignored the fact that Denmark actively participated in laying minefields as soon as war began; that the first British shots were fired in West Africa, by a black man; and that the first Australian casualties occurred not at Gallipoli, but in the Pacific.

The authors of this radical new history have scoured the globe in search of an enormous quantity of fresh material. This is not history told by 'great men', this is a people's view of the war. Eyewitness accounts translated from more than a dozen languages break new ground to reveal an inclusive, touching and surprising tale of events we thought we knew.
About Alexandra Churchill | Nicolai Eberholst
Alexandra Churchill is an experienced historian and television and podcast presenter. Her specialties are the Western Front and the Middle East. Nicolai Eberholst is a Danish archivist working in Copenhagen, and his specialities are the Eastern and Italian Fronts, and neutrality in the First World War. Between them they have expertise in nine languages. Together, Alex and Nicolai have been instrumental in the formation of a charity, the Great War Group, which was established to make the subject more inclusive and to break down national barriers in sharing information about the war.

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