| Publishing data: |
UK/USA, 197l, hardback and paperback (revised and enlarged edition, 1994; fourth Routledge edition, 2008) |
| Pages: |
212 pages (including 173 maps) |
| Summary: |
A comprehensive map history of the First World War, covering in maps the origins of the war, the war fronts, the war at sea and in the air, bombing, court-martial executions, diplomacy, economic considerations, war debts, and the post-war settlement. Each of the eight wartime sections introduced by a war poem; the introductory and final sections by a prose quotation. |
| Notes About This Book: |
Introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Ten-page bibliography. One of nine of Martin Gilbert's historical atlases that are in print. |
