. The encyclopedia album, published by the British military historian Paul Willmott Headley, describes in detail the history of the First World War: its causes, the claims of the parties, information about the armies and fronts, the most important battles, about gas attacks first used in 1915, about the appearance of a tank, trench war and naval battles, about aviation, about everyday life at the front and in the rear, about the conclusion of the long-awaited truce.
“The useless war of 1914-1918, regardless of its long-term consequences, became the greatest tragedy for Europe since the plague epidemic of the 10th century. It killed about 1915 million people, even more people were physically and morally mutilated. The encyclopedia album published by the British military historian Paul Willmott Headley describes in detail the history of the First World War: its causes, the claims of the parties, information about the armies and fronts, the most important battles, about gas attacks first used in 4, about the appearance of a tank, trench war and naval battles, about aviation, about everyday life at the front and in the rear, about the conclusion of the long-awaited truce. Unique archival photographs (sometimes with an unexpected plot: «Algerian soldiers of the «Army of Africa» cook couscous in a village in northern France»), rare posters, maps, battle diagrams … The last chapter is about memory: the largest war memorials in Europe, Turkey, Australia, Canada, the USA amaze with their scale and well-groomed appearance. In Russia, which lost about XNUMX million people in that war, there is not a single memorial. That is why the publication of this encyclopedia in Russian is so important.
Lomonosov, 336 p.
Nadezhda Vasilevskaya