This book features a collection of articles and official accounts and records on events of the First World War (1914-1918), contemporaneously known as the Great

This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its histor

With its authoritative reference entries, multiple introductory and perspective essays, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and bibliography, this si

This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse o

Focuses on a great watershed event The First World War was one of the great watershed events of the 20th century, not only costing millions of live but also dis