The Atlantic

Was the Great War Necessary?

The Great War, used interchangeably with the First World War (so named in 1918 by a sardonic English journalist, who knew it would not be the last such conflict), engendered in Britain a sense of loss ...
The Atlantic

How the Great War Shaped the World

The First World War, George Kennan wrote decades after it ended, was the ur‑catastrophe of the 20th century. The first conflict among industrialized global powers killed 10 million soldiers and ...
IGN

The Great War: Western Front Review

There are around a million games about the Second World War for every one about the First, and The Great War: Western Front serves as a pretty good illustration of some of the reasons for that. The ...
The Economist

Much of the Great War was decided in the east

The Eastern Front. By Nick Lloyd. Viking; 672 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in August; $42 Just 29 years old, Karl I was desperate to lead Austria-Hungary out of the first ...
The Economist

Still in the grip of the Great War

WITH four months to go before the centenary of the start of the first world war, the bombardment of new books from competing historians is growing heavier. Unlike many of the young men who went off to ...
The National Interest

How Woodrow Wilson Failed to End the Great War

Philip Zelikow, The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917. (New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2021), 352 pp., $18.99. “War,” French politician Georges Clemenceau famously ...