THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Author: Martin Gilbert

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Year published: 1994

Pagination: 616pp, 31 maps, 80 illus, bibliography, index

Condition: Very good in dustjacket

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The first pan-European conflict for a hundred years, the Great War as it became known, pitted two groups of powerful states, the Entente (Britain, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (Germany and Austria - Hungary) against each other. It was fought with everything that modern science could devise, including poison gas, tanks and huge siege artillery. When it ended nine million soldiers had died. An authoritative history of WWI by one of the foremost historians of the century.