History: World War I

First hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that killed millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon nation sent their men to join the war, combine to present a dramatic view of WW I.

From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the human consequences assessed. Chapters on economic mobilization, the impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider social context of fighting which took place at sea and in the air and which ranged on land from the Flanders trenches to the Balkan mountains and the deserts of the Middle East. While the war was fought on many fronts and in many different ways, the unifying experience of participants was that of the trenches.