Originally published: 1998. New edition published in hardcover in 2014.

A comprehensive, illustrated history of World War I, its causes, impact on global politics and economy, military and political strategies, and the legacy it lef

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a lon

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmesh

Illustrates life on the home front, important battles, war from the perspective of generals and soldiers, the collapse of empires, and glimpses of World War II