From Wikipedia:
Hanson Weightman Baldwin (March 22, 1903 – November 13, 1991) was the long-time military editor of the New York Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize "for his coverage of the early days of World War II". He authored or edited numerous books on military topics.
His books published are: Men and Ships of Steel (1935), We Saw It Happen (1938), The Caissons Roll (1938), Admiral Dealth (1939), What the Citizen Should Know About the Navy (1941), United We Stand (1941), Strategy for Victory (1942), The Navy at War (1943), The Price of Power (1947), Great Mistakes of the War (1949), Sea fights and Shipwrecks (1955), The Great Arms Race (1958), World War I: An Outline History (1962), The New Navy (1964), Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World War II (1966), Strategy for Tomorrow (1970), The Crucial Years, 1939-1941 (1976), and Tiger Jack (1979).
Besides the Pulitzer Prize, he received many awards and prizes, including the Distinguished Service Medal from Syracuse University in 1944. He also received honorary degrees from Drake University and the Clarkson Institute of Technology.
From the dust jacket description:
The Great War of 1914 - 1918, in its scope, its violence and, above all, in its totality, ushered in the century of global war. Never before had a war absorbed so much of the total resources of so many combatants. Never had so many nations been involved. Never had the slaughter been so comprehensive and indiscriminate. And never had the participants staked so much for so little.
It was nearly fifty years ago that an assassin’s bullet touched off the spark igniting the first great world conflict, and set in motion forces that changed the face of Europe and paved the way for the Bolshevik Revolution, an even greater later war, and the global turmoil in which we are still embroiled.
With the perspective of years, and out of his profound knowledge of military affairs, Hanson Baldwin has written the first comprehensive outline history of the Great War. While the accounts are brief, the book covers every aspect of the war, from the initial German invasion of France and Belgium through the complex maneuvers on the Eastern Front, to the campaigns in Gallipoli and the Middle East, the stalemates in Italy and in the trenches in France, and the war at sea.
World War I is a complete yet concise narrative of one of the most important events in history, the men who played the leading roles—Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Sir Douglas Haig, Foch, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicholas, Attaturk, Churchill, Pershing—and the forces that influenced them.
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181 pages
8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches
8th printing, hardcover with dustjacket
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The dustjacket is complete (the front flap has been clipped with a new price on a label—clipped and applied by the publisher). It is rubbed and a bit worn at the edges and corners with a few small tears along the edges.
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