The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict.
Millennium Edition.
The assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 proved to be the spark that ignited World War I (June, 1914 - November, 1918). Known as "The Great War", it quickly came to involve all the great powers of Europe and eventually most countries of the world. Sixty-five million troops were mobilised, over eight million of whom were killed and twenty million wounded in the ferocious fighting which ensued.
This six volume series was reprinted from the original data amassed by worldwide correspondents from the battlefield as the war was being fought. These reporters, mostly civilians working for newspapers, gathered both eyewitness accounts and testimonies from soldiers participating in events that were then relayed to the public in "War Chronicles". Using this extensive data, together with very detailed regimental records, H W Wilson's 'History Of The Great War' was compiled.
Profusely illustrated, Volume One in the series, 'Opening Moves', covers topics including how the trouble began; gathering of the fleet; British at Boulogne; the war of the Bight of Heligoland; first battles in east Prussia; the agony of Belgium; British stand at Mons; fall of Antwerp; defence of Ypres; the battles between Landrecies and Cambrai; and naval war in the Atlantic and Pacific.
