World War One: A Short History Historical Fiction enfevered by influenza returns in

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It killed more than half a million people in a matter of months

World War One: A Short History Historical Fiction enfevered by influenza returns inDescription by Norman Stone Paperback The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentiethand then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well. In World War One, Norman Stone, one