A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most recognizable and unblemished historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, vivid, and now classic narration of World War I, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans, and the War at Sea, up to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. It includes photos and maps, making it an essential history of the war that "cut deeply into the consciousness of modern man."