100 great secrets of the First World War: Boris Sokolov

The First World War is a tragic turning point in the history of all European civilization, marked by the beginning of the twentieth century, which entailed revolutionary upheavals and mass terror. The map of Europe was completely blocked; The most powerful empires of the world broke up. In their place, new states arose, the contradictions between which the new world war was inevitable. What do we know about the First World War? Hundreds of volumes published in Soviet times told us exclusively with the “Marxist-Leninist” positions. The monarchy, which waged this war, collapsed, and its most radical opponents came to power, sought to erase from history everything that was connected with the “damned tsarism.” But still, it is impossible to deny that it was the First World War who became the war of the “new” type: in terms of scale, drawn into it, and by the size of the army, and in losses. On the pages of this book, both the most tragic pages of the Great War, and the most vivid ones, as well as non -SOS …

Author
Sokolov Boris Vadimovich
Editor
Zalesskaya M.K.
Publisher
Veche, 2014
Series
100 great

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