2 Brief War Histories by Bamber Gascoigne
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Overview: Bamber Gascoigne is best known in the UK as the host for twenty-five years (1962-87) of the popular quiz game University Challenge, the British version of College Bowl in the United States. But his main activity has been bringing general history to a wide public, as the author of books and the author-presenter of television documentaries. In recent years this theme has been continued in the digital medium, first in his involvement with HistoryWorld (http://www.historyworld.net), a website that he founded and launched in 2001, and now through this series of e-books published by HistoryWorld.
A Brief History of the First World War
This account of the First World War begins with the dangerous arms race developing between Germany and Britain in the early 1900s. Europe seems poised for a war, which is ignited when the heir to the Austrian empire is assassinated in 1914. There follow the four dreadful years of trench warfare, with soldiers undergoing constant bombardment and dying in their hundreds of thousands. The final end is ominous too. While an influenza pandemic adds millions more to the global death toll, the peace negotiators in Versailles impose on Germany a harsh treaty that can be partly blamed for a second world war a mere 20 years later.
A Brief History of the Second World War
This account of the Second World War begins with the rise to power of Hitler and the years of confrontation and appeasement that finally led to war when he invaded Poland in 1939. It continues through the six years of the conflict, with its moments of extreme danger and crucial turning points, as the battles by land, sea and air, and the bombing of cities, and the unprecedented hidden horrors of the Holocaust unfold. And it ends with the all too rapid change of gear into the Cold War.
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