An illustrated history of the first global war, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 to the Treaty of Versailles and its consequences for the defeated powers Complemented by full-color artworks and over 250 contemporary black-and-white photographs of famous battles such as Somme, Verdun, Passchendaele, Cambrai, and Belleau Wood Featuring boxes on a wide range of topics, including gas warfare, ANZACs, the Kaiser, the tank, artillery, HMS Dreadnought, Ireland, air combat, Q-ships, and the Lusitania