Thursday, November 29, 2012

True Stories of the First World War by Paul Dowswell


8,528,831 killed.
21,189,154 wounded. 
www.pbs.org 
The war that will end all wars.
The Great War. 

Almost 100 years after the end of World War 1, the stories and lessons learned still haunt citizens of today's world.  World War 1 (often referred to as WWI) was the first modern war.  The availability of new technologies allowed slaughter on a massive scale...numbers of wounded and dead soaring into the millions.  In Paul Dowswell's True Stories of the First World War some of these horrifying tales come to life.


This book is sure to interest history buffs, as well as those readers just looking to learn a little more about "the war that will end all wars".   

True Stories of World War 1 is on AR. 

If you want to learn more about the author, Paul Dowswell, click on this link:  http://www.pauldowswell.co.uk/index.htm.

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