Sir Winston has a wonderfull dominion of the English language and, with the simplest words, conveys the action, or completes a description, in way that you feel part of the story. On this particular opus the style is vintage Churchill and the book is quite a delight to read. Having said all that, and to go to the point, this is not a book you want to read as your first on WW I. His is a personal narrative, of all the episodes on which he played a part, with insights that only a witness to the events can give. Large parts of the events of this war are skimmed over or simply not mentioned, the descriptions of battles are succint and to the point, etc.