Book description
The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so
dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of
innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the
modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up
of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the
four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness
chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff
rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert
to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German
U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the
horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured,
so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.
