{"product_id":"world-war-one-a-short-history-by-norman-stone","title":"World War One: A Short History By Norman Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The First World War marked a revolution in the technology of slaughter as trench warfare, artillery barrages, tanks and chemical warfare made their mark on the battlefield for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But in only 140 pages, Norman Stone distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking to reframe the overwhelming disaster whose aftershocks shaped the rest of the twentieth century\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookish Corner","offers":[{"title":"Used\nPaperback","offer_id":49634645344471,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/4573\/0775\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_995d4095-36d8-48dd-8f7d-d93ce5f5f700.png?v=1787640408","url":"https:\/\/bookishcornerkwt.com\/products\/world-war-one-a-short-history-by-norman-stone","provider":"Bookish Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}