World War One offers a detailed look at one of the most disastrous wars in history. The series is packed with information, photographs and maps. Timelines and quotes put events in context and help to personalise them. Weapons and Warfare examines how the advances in early 20th-century technology allowed war to be waged on a previously unimaginable scale.
For most of the 1980s Adrian Gilbert worked as a book and partwork editor. Since then he has written many books on historical themes, including two volumes for Wayland on the French and Russian revolutions. He reckons the best thing about the 1980s was the development of the personal computer - which has made life for a bad speller a great deal easier!
A fascinating compendium of grisly facts.
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