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Adams, R.J.Q. (ed.), The Great War, 1914-18 (1990).

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BOOK REVIEW

BY

COREY L. JONES

Submitted to:

Dr. Fred R. Van Hartesveldt
Department of History, Geography & Political Science
Fort Valley State University

World battle I, often referred to as the primary World warfare, or the pleasant struggle, was once a worldwide conflict centred in Europe that commenced on 28 July 1914 and lasted unless St Martin's Day 1918. More than 70 million army personnel, together with 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the most biggest wars in history. Over 9 million opponents and seven million civilians died for that reason of the warfare, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate brought about with the aid of trench struggle, a grueling form of battle in which the defender held the expertise. It used to be one of the deadliest conflicts in historical past, and prepared the ground for important political alterations, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.
The struggle drew in the entire world's fiscal quality powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies versus the crucial Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Although Italy was once a member of the Triple Alliance alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary, it didn't become a member of the valuable Powers, as Austria-Hungary had taken the offensive, against the terms of the alliance. These alliances were reorganised and multiplied as extra countries entered the war: Italy, Japan and the united states joined the Allies, even as the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the central Powers.
The set off for the war used to be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by using Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June