How long does it take to read The Origins of the First World War?
James Joll, Gordon Martel
The Origins of the First World War by James Joll, Gordon Martel takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 264 pages, about 72,600 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In this new edition Gordon Martel has woven into the original text the enormous amount of new research on the subject that has been conducted by historians over the past twenty years. New arguments and the new debates that this research have generated have been integrated, and the bibliography expanded and updated."--Jacket.
Subjects: Causes, History, History - Military / War, Europe, Military - World War I, History / General
