{"product_id":"ring-of-fire-by-alexandra-churchill-9781035903429","title":"Ring of Fire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChurchill and Eberholst put the world back into First World War.\u003c\/em\u003e Dan Snow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA remarkable, eyewitness-based view of the outbreak of the First World War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs war broke out in the summer of 1914, not a nation on Earth understood the magnitude of what they were about to face. To win it, whole populations must be mobilised, and neutrality was impossible to practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur understanding of this complex conflict has been coloured by a blinkered approach to popular history. It has ignored the fact that Denmark actively participated in laying minefields as soon as war began; that the first British shots were fired in West Africa, by a black man; and that the first Australian casualties occurred not at Gallipoli, but in the Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors have scoured the globe in search of an enormous quantity of fresh material. This is not history as told by 'great men'; this is a people's view of the war, translated from more than a dozen languages to fashion a new inclusive, touching and surprising tale of events that we thought we knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46837926887660,"sku":"9781035903429","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22555053482556.jpg?v=1758624813","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ring-of-fire-by-alexandra-churchill-9781035903429","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}