Download or read book The Great War, 1914-1918 written by Ian Frederick William Beckett and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this seminal work, Ian F. W. Beckett challenges the cliched images of the Great War that have come to dominate popular culture. Rather than dismissing the War as an exercise in mindless futility, he argues that, on the contrary, it was vital to the national interests of its participants, and shows how what originated as a European affair became a global event involving not only the extended colonial empires of European nations but also Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.