Military history is now a best-selling publishing category, and in recent years there has been a spate of enormously successful books, films and television prog

Dramatic, hard hitting, and intensely moving, this book is a unique visula testament to the many millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war, and

One hundred years later, the First World War has returned to public consciousness, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the

1914, the first year of the war to end all wars, is documented in archive photographs in this, the first of a series covering the war in detail.

Charting the Allies' entry into warfare in 1914, Max Arthur tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army's life through the five years of s