The heart of this account of the First World War is the author's analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed. He also exhibits the profound consequences the War had for the modern world. Includes 24 pages of photographs, 2 endpaper maps, 15 maps in text, and an index.

(Key Words: History, Military History, World War One, World War, War, History, Verdun, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Trench Warfare, Serbia, Schlieffen plan, Russian Army, Helmut Von Moltke, General Erich Ludenoff, Marshall Joseph Joffre, General Erich Falkenhayn).