World War 1: The Four Years That Shaped History torrent

The First World War killed 17 million people, traumatised a generation, overturned old empires and changed the world’s political order – and yet its origins often seem obscure.

World War One: The global conflict that defined a century.

In late June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. An escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leading by mid-August to the outbreak of World War I, which pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (the Allied Powers). The Allies were joined after 1917 by the United States. The four years of the Great War–as it was then known–saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction, thanks to grueling trench warfare and the introduction of modern weaponry such as machine guns, tanks and chemical weapons. By the time World War I ended in the defeat of the Central Powers in November 1918, more than 9 million soldiers had been killed and 21 million more wounded.

World War 1: The Four Years That Shaped History by Patrick Auerbach
English | 30 Oct 2016 | ASIN: B01MFEVAD6 | 28 Pages | PDF/EPUB/MOBI/AZW3 | 164 KB/142 KB/364 KB/187 KB