First World War For Dummies Chapter Summary

TThe Title “First World War for Dummies” is self-explanatory that it is about World War 1. The author of the book, Sean Lang describes the war in detail of how this war differs from others, whether the war was worth it till describing the best places to visit to learn more about World War 1. The countries’ leaders (especially in Europe) desire to be “Great Power” of the world is the main reason why the war started. But, “the Sarajevo assassination in 1914, however, was the spark that finally set off the First World War.” Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Royal Highness of Austria, Hungary was assassinated by Colonel Dimitrijevic, also known as Apis to obtain power by obtaining a port on the Adriatic coast. Austria- Hungary asked German’s help

He does not use many jargon words, therefore makes the reading easy. Besides that, he uses quite a few symbols throughout the book. For the important points, he infers them as “Remember”, the technologies that we introduced or used during the war are categorized as “Technological Innovation”, uncertain facts are written under “Did it Really Happen?”, etc. In order to keep the reader entertained engaged throughout, he does include some of his jokes and interesting titles. For example, “In those days many doctors even recommended smoking, saying it was good for the lungs!” and titles such as, "Any Idea How to Win this War by Christmas?” In addition to that, Sean Lang have so much information to share in his book and I wish he could organize them in a better way for readers not to feel chaotic. Overall, Lang did not have bias feeling towards an alliance over another, but in some places, I felt that he was leaning towards the British. “Unfortunately, when the British tried to work their way around the German flank, they found that the Germans were now trying to do the same to them (page 93).” He used “unfortunately” which indicates that he was feeling pity for British for the evil act of