The First World War and straight from the heart

and straight from the heart

George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley

something goes irrevocably wrong

in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation

was a war correspondent and champion skier

The First World War and straight from the heartNATIONAL BESTSELLER The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. "Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient. Keegan is perhaps the best military historian of our day." The New York Times Book Review The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth