The Real War

THE REAL WAR is a history of WW I unlike anything we have ever read. Liddell Hart sets the stage like a masterful dramatist. Bismarck, Disraeli, Czar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm emerge from the wings and drive their countries on a collision course. The action ranges wherever Germany and the Allies lock in combat: Poland, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Caporetto, Bagdad, the North Sea and the Mediterranean. The origins of the war, the backroom agonies of the diplomats trying to avert it, the feelings of the generals who conduct it fill the pages of this authoritative study. "Liddell Hart has synthesized the immensity of the war into a single volume, presenting it tactically, critically, historically--a valuable work." (Nation)