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“It’s 1,139 pages. You need pretty strong wrists if you want to read it in bed … You get a very real sense of how the war moved from being just a bunch of Europeans fighting each other into a World War, both in terms of the European war sucking in the resources of the world to add fuel to the fire but also in terms of the war being exported to Africa, to Asia, to the Americas.” Read more...
Jonathan Boff, Historian
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