“With the ingenious use of maps, diagrams and statistics, this indispensable work explains the strategies of the combatants and the diplomatic history.” —

"Every map, with its accompanying notes, is almost a chapter of history in itself....General readers as well as history students will value the atlas for its me

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous and bloody course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 164 fascinating maps.From its origins

WWI was a complex conflict: an air war, a land war fought in the Balkans, NW Europe, Italy, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East, and a naval war in the North Sea

​*** OVER 210,000 WEST POINT MILITARY HISTORY SERIES SETS IN PRINT ​*** World War I marked the end of the old military order and the beginning of the era of