MCPHERSON, WILLIAM LENHART. Short history of the great war. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.3
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This volume “dealing particularly with its military and diplomatic aspects and the part played in it by the United States” (Sub-title), offers a general outline story of the war with the main object of giving a clear and accurate running account of its origin and progress. It is a complement to the author’s other book, “The strategy of the great war,” and gives in detail all the outstanding facts and principal operations of the war with appendices and an index.
“Because this book relates to military policy, it is equally interesting to the trained soldier and to the intelligent civilian.” X. Y. Z.
+ Nation 111:106 Jl 24 ’20 950w
“The only regret of the reader in regard to Mr McPherson’s one-volume history of the war is that it has no maps; otherwise, within the limitations of space set, it leaves nothing to be desired.” Walter Littlefield
+ N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“Clear and good it is, but it leaves the impression in one’s mind of newspaper material dished up into a book. On the score of originality of presentation, freshness of statement, vigor of style, it suffers by comparison with Pollard’s, nor does it exhibit the same nicety of proportion and balance.”
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