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"World War I" (Eyewitness Series)
Reviewer: John Matlock "Gunny"
Winnemucca, NV
(review from Amazon.com)

" This is the best single volume history of World War I that I have ever seen. It is balanced between what was happening where, with why it was happening. Perhaps there is more on the 'why' in this book than in any other I have seen. It is well illustrated and well documented with hundreds of first hand reports from diary entries, letters, newspaper reports, speeches and other original documents.

Each of the twelve chapters begins with an introductory essay, followed by an chronology of the period, and then the first hand reports. I find this approach to be excellent. The separation of the narrative from the detail allows the author to concentrate on the big picture while including all of the details in the later section.

Even after reading Dr. Carlisle's excellent description I still find it hard to believe that the nations of Europe were so ready for war that the really rather minor events in the Balkans would lead to such slaughter. I suppose that the leaders simply didn't know, and couldn't believe what was going to happen."

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