The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War - Hew Strachan - Softcover epic It describes how the Germans

It describes how the Germans carefully built up their assault forces utilizing all available reserves and resources and making them into effective killing machine

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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War - Hew Strachan - Softcover epic It describes how the GermansThe First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany, Austria Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The Oxford Illustrated