The World War I Book

The First World War killed seventeen million people, redrew the map of Europe, destroyed four empires, and created the conditions for the second and even more destructive conflict that followed twenty-one years later. DK’s The World War I Book presents the complete history of the conflict — its causes, its campaigns, its technology, its human cost, and its legacy — in the comprehensive, visually immediate format that makes DK’s history reference series the most accessible available.

From the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand through the battles of Verdun and the Somme to the armistice of November 1918, every phase of the war is covered with maps, photographs, profiles of key commanders, and analysis of the tactical and strategic decisions that determined its course.

An essential reference for students of military history and a moving visual record of one of the defining catastrophes of the twentieth century. Published by DK.