The First World War: An Illustrated History

A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear lively and now-classic account of the First World War he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West through the Marne Gallipoli the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. Containing photographs and maps this an essential history of the war that cut deep into the consciousness of modern man. Review The most readable sceptical and original of modern historians - Michael Foot Remarkable ... Taylor here manages in some 200 illustrated pages to say almost everything that is important for an understanding and indeed intellectual digestion of that vast event Observer It is unlikely that there will be a more satisfactory compact survey of that Armageddon Newsweek What makes Taylors book outstanding is his capacity to penetrate through the undergrowth of controversy and conflicting interpretation to the central truth New York Review of Books Probably the most controversial historian in the English-speaking world The Times About the Author A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) was one of the most brilliant historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester Oxford and London.