More than two hundred maps illustrate general political and military strategy, major campaigns, and important stages in naval and air conflicts and the war on the Western and Eastern fronts.
With expert, accessible text, comprehensive maps of all theatres, this complete atlas provides an invaluable work of reference for both the general reader and the serious student of World War I.
Every map, with its accompanying notes, is almost a chapter of history in itself....General readers as well as history students will value the atlas for its meticulously detailed information.-- Times...
The British , having declared war in defence of Belgian neutrality , hurried an Expeditionary Force to Mons . The Germans drove into France , but were halted on the Marne , and driven back Calais • Ypres Brussels Liége Mons • Namur ...
Military Atlas of the First World War
With expert, accessible text and accompanying archival photographs, this complete atlas provides an invaluable work of reference for both the general reader and the serious student of World War I. World War I Illustrated Atlas is a ...
This is a thorough examination of the campaigns of the "war to end all wars." It analyzes the development of military theory and practice from the prewar period of Bismark's Prussia to the creation of the League of Nations.
Contents include the campaigns in Northwest Europe, Italy, North Africa, the Soviet Union, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Atlantic and Mediterranean. This folio edition provides an attractive and invaluable work of reference.
Follow the conflict of World War I from 1914-1918 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary, and photographs More than 150 maps, some previously unpublished, are used here to demonstrate how World War I was fought ...
This definitive, lavishly illustrated book from National Geographic features an astonishing array of vintage and newly created maps, rare photographs, covert documents, and eyewitness accounts that illuminate the world's greatest conflict.
The Soviets had completely encircled Berlin by April 25, the day their advance elements came in contact with Americans ... R . O d e r R . Danube W e s s e r R . W e i n e R . Lake Constance NEW PERILS FOR WAR-WEARY EUROPE By May 1945, ...