Book Description

In this account, Winston Churchill details how the tides of despair and triumph flowed and ebbed as the political and military leaders of the period between 1911 and 1918 navigated the dangerous currents of world conflict. Churchill recounts the major campaigns that shaped the war: the furious attacks of the Marne, the naval maneuvers off Jutland, Verdun's "soul-stirring frenzy," and the surprising victory of Chemins des Dames. Here, too, he re-creates the dawn of modern warfare: the buzz of airplanes overhead, trench combat, artillery thunder, and the threat of chemical warfare. In Churchill's voice we hear how "the war to end all wars" instead gave birth to every war that would follow.