Author(s): Formerly Keeper of the Department of Antiquities Robert Hamilton (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Military

The Great War the War to End All Wars which began 100 years ago, cost 15 million lives, and shaped the modern world. New technologies such as tanks, aircraft, submarines and chemical warfare wrought unimaginable horror throughout Europe, upon combatants and civilians alike, for four years. Comprised of more than a thousand photographs, maps, battle plans and contemporaneous news reports, this book tells the complete story of this devastating war."