{"product_id":"9781035903429","title":"Ring of Fire : A New Global History of the Outbreak of the First World War","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Churchill, Alexandra \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003e20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 May 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Apollo) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 448 pages, 5 Maps\u003cbr\u003e240 x 164 | 711g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Churchill and Eberholst put the world back into First World War.' Dan SnowA remarkable, eyewitness-based view of the outbreak of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs war broke out in the summer of 1914, not a nation on Earth understood the magnitude of what they were about to face. To win it, whole populations must be mobilised, and neutrality was impossible to practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur understanding of this complex conflict has been coloured by a blinkered approach to popular history. It has ignored the fact that Denmark actively participated in laying minefields as soon as war began; that the first British shots were fired in West Africa, by a black man; and the first Australian casualties occurred not at Gallipoli, but in the Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors have scoured the globe in search of an enormous quantity of fresh material. This is not history as told by 'great men', this is a people's view of the war, translated from more than a dozen languages to fashion a new inclusive, touching and surprising tale of events that we thought we knew...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46793938895107,"sku":"9781035903429","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781035903429.jpg?v=1746280171","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781035903429","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}