The World Crisis, Vol. 1: 1911-1914

The first in a five-volume set of essential reading that examines the causes of the Great War

This, the first in Sir Winston Churchill''s five-volume history examining the events and context leading up to the outbreak of World War I from a true insider''s point of view, is unsurpassed as both a historical and personal account of the earth-shaking events leading up to The Great War.

Churchill''s epic series begins in 1911, when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, and opens with a chilling description of the Agadir Crisis, and an in-depth account of naval clashes in the Dardanelles-one of Churchill''s major military failures. It takes readers from the fierce bloodshed of the Gallipoli campaign to the tragic sinking of the Lusitania and the tide-turning battles of Jutland and Verdun-as well as the USA''s entry into the combat theatre.

Written in powerful prose by a great leader who would also go on to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, and based on thousands of his own personal letters and memos, The World Crisis provides a perspective you won''t find anywhere else: a dynamic insider''s account of events that would shape the outcome of modern history.