David Herrmann's work is the most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crise

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians ha

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The first complete account of a unique military operation - and of why it ended in failure.

David Stevenson's widely acclaimed history of World War I changes forever our understanding of that pivotal conflict. Countering the commonplace assumption that