'Churchill and Eberholst put the world back into First World War.' Dan Snow

A remarkable, eyewitness-based view of the outbreak of the First World War. As war broke out in the summer of 1914, not a nation on Earth understood the magnitude of what they were about to face. To win it, whole populations must be mobilized, and neutrality was impossible to maintain.

Our understanding of this complex conflict has been shaped by a narrow view of popular history. It has ignored the fact that Denmark actively participated in laying minefields as soon as the war began; that the first British shots were fired in West Africa, by a black man; and the first Australian casualties occurred not at Gallipoli, but in the Pacific.

The authors have traveled around the world in search of a vast amount of new material. This is not history as told by 'great men'; this is a people's perspective on the war, translated from more than a dozen languages to craft a new inclusive, touching, and surprising story of events we thought we knew...

Pages: 448, Year of Publication: 0930, Dimensions: 16.4x16.4cm