The Routledge Atlas of the First World War

by Martin Gilbert

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Summary

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. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its military, social, political and economic aspects. Beginning with the tensions that already existed, the atlas
* the early months of the from the fall of Belgium to the fierce fighting at Ypres and Tannenberg
* the developing war in from Gallipoli to the horrors of the Somme and Verdun
* life at the from living underground, the trench system and the mud of Passchendaele to the war graves
* war in the air and at from the Zeppelin raids to the battles in the North Sea, shipping losses and the Atlantic convoys
* technology and the new from phosgene gas attacks to submarines, tanks and mines
* the home from German food riots to the air defence of Britain, the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Austria-Hungary
* the from war debts and war deaths to the new map of Europe.

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