![]() ![]() By the end of the war, three great empires - the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman - had collapsed. ![]() It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today: modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter. The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan 2018 marks the centenary of the First World War - the war that created the modern world. ![]() It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today: modernism in the arts, new. ![]() ![]()
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