100 Days to Victory

Name: 100 Days to Victory
Rating: 4.5 (62 reviews)

by Saul David

First published 2013

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4.3(62)

Saul David reconstructs the First World War through one hundred selected days, beginning with the crisis that followed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ending with the collapse of the Central Powers in 1918. The chronological snapshots move between governments, headquarters, trenches, ships, aircraft and civilian communities, showing how decisions made on a single day could redirect an entire campaign.

The book ranges across the Western and Eastern fronts, Gallipoli, the Middle East, the war at sea and the home fronts. Political leaders and senior commanders appear beside soldiers, nurses, workers and families, including members of David’s own family. The method makes the conflict both global and personal while explaining how mobilisation, attrition, industrial capacity and coalition warfare eventually produced Allied victory.

Historical Periods

World War I1914–1918 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Wilhelm II1859–1941 Woodrow Wilson1856–1924 Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Winston Churchill1874–1965 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig1861–1928 David Lloyd George1863–1945 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881–1938