This book demonstrates how the outcome of the First World War has formed the modern world we live in today.

Casting aside conventional narratives of The Great War, Jeremy Black returns to a vast range of original sources and investigates not only the key events of the war, but its consequences in restructuring the old order. Black also considers the struggle not only in its historical context, but also how it has been remembered and memorialised, especially as the generation who experienced it firsthand are passing away. Now in paperback, this book has been updated with a foreword and afterword to consider recent developments.

"Jeremy Black makes a convincing case for the importance of this era" - The Catholic Herald

"Reviewed on Stephen Goddard's Historywire.com" - Historywire.com

"An excellent history of the First World War... Even though many general histories of the Great War have been published in recent years, this one is well worth adding to the shelves." - The Bulletin of the Military History Society, Vol. 62, No. 246

"[Black's] overview of the causes of the Great War, the year by year chapters from 1914 to 1918 on the events, the battle and the politics show a mastery of the subject, particularly the many slideshows and the politics so often overlooked in similar one-volume works on the subject." - 'Stand-To', Western Front Association