THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN QUOTES
PB with flaps 165 x 165 mm 192 pages b/w throughout £6.99 ISBN: 9781781451182
The First World War (1914–18) saw the mobilisation of 70 million combatants from the world’s great powers. Much of the conflict was a grinding stalemate confined to defensive trench networks carved through the battlefields of Europe and separated by a devastated ‘no-man’s land’ strewn with barbed wire. The scale of the armies and the era’s technological advances in weaponry combined to create the most devastating war in history, resulting in the deaths of over nine million people.
To coincide with the many poignant centenaries of the four-year conflict, The First World War In Quotes presents a record of the lives of politicians, royalty, military commanders and the ordinary soldiers and civilian families whose lives were torn apart in a war that redrew the world map. It combines almost 100 photographs from the news archives of Mirrorpix, with the inspirational, moving, shocking and often humorous words of the men and women who experienced The Great War at first hand.
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