WORLD HISTORY: FIRST WORLD WAR. Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously imagined. This book, with a foreword by Professor Hew Strachan, covers the fighting on all fronts, from Flanders to Tannenberg and from Italy to Palestine. A series of moving extracts from personal letters, diaries and journals bring to life the experiences of soldiers and civilians caught up in the war.

First edition entered under Geoffrey Jukes. "Previously published as: Essential Histories 13: The First World War (1) The Eastern Front 1914-1918; Essential Histories 14: The First World War (2) The Western Front 1914-1916; Essential Histories 22: The First World War (3) The Western Front 1917-1918; Essential Histories 23: The First World War (4) The Mediterranean Front 1914-1923"--Title page verso. Includes maps of: Opposing Sides, 1914-1918; European Alliances before and during the First World War; Schlieffen Plan; Battle of the Frontiers and the Allied Retreat to the Marne, 22 August-5 September 1914; First Battle of Ypres, October-November 1914; Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10-12 March 1915; Battle of Loos, September-October 1915; Western Front, 1914-1918; Battle of Verdun, February-December 1916; British 4th Army's Zone of Operations - Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916; Battle of the Somme, July-November 1916; German Withdrawal, February-April 1917; Arras - the Infantry Assault Plan, 9 April 1917; Nivelle Offensive - Opening Phase; Messines Ridge and the Third Battle of Ypres, June-November 1917; Operation Michael - the Plan; Operation Michael - the End of the Offensive; German Offensives, March-July 1918; Battle of Amiens, August 1918; Final Allied Offensive, September-November 1918; Russia in 1914; Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes; Battle of Lodz to the Second Battle of Warsaw; Battle of Limanowa-Lapanow; Battle of Gorlice-Tarnow; Fall of Trabzon; Brusilov Offensive; Invasion of Romania; Sealed Train; Front Line at Peace and After; Serbia and Salonika, 1914-1916; Mesopotamian Theatre, 1914-1917; Gallipoli, 1915; War in the Desert, 1915-1918; Campaigns in Sinai and Palestine; Megiddo - Allenby's Master Stroke, 19-21 September 1918; Italian Front, 1915-1918; Eastern Mediterranean and the Heart of the Ottoman Empire, 1914.

1. The Western Front 1914-1916 -- 2. The Western Front 1917-1918 -- 3. The Eastern Front 1914-1918 -- 4. The Mediterranean Front 1914-1923.