"With this accurate and graphic book you quickly learn the essential facts about the events and significance of this terribel and horrifying war. The survivors of the million American doughboys who fought in World War I will be fascinated to see the battlegrounds where they so bitterly fought." -- From the book jacket.

Main sections include : Before the storm 1871-1914 -- The upheaval 1914-1916 -- The Naval war 1914-1918 -- The war in the sky 1914-1918 -- The momentous year 1917 -- Distant guns : the war in Africa, Palestine and Mesopotamia (1914-1918) -- "With our backs to the wall!" (1918) -- The Doughboys and the leathernecks : Chateau Thierry and Bellau Wood (1918) -- Eleventh Hour, eleventh day, eleventh month -- Revolt in the Fatherland -- The peace that failed.