War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War

by William Philpott and William J. Philpott

Book Overview

A Wall Street Journal Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014

The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, one hundred years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468310992
• ISBN13: 9781468310993
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"