World War I

Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Stated First Edition Thus (1973; full printing number line if noted on copyright verso). Large folio/quarto (approx. 12 x 9 inches); 256 pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth over boards with spine and front board lettered and stamped in bright gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of monochrome and full-color combat photographs, theater and trench maps, technical cutaways of tanks, aircraft, and naval artillery, contemporary propaganda posters, and chronological battle tables. A clean, square, and firmly bound copy with sharp corners, clean cloth, and unmarked interior pages. The original pictorial dust jacket remains vibrant and complete, showing minor edge creasing, light surface rubbing, and a small closed tear at the bottom edge of the rear panel. Featuring an authoritative introductory essay by preeminent British historian A. J. P. Taylor, David Shermer’s World War I offers a comprehensive visual and strategic overview of the Great War. Moving from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo through the bloody trench stalemates of the Western Front—including the Marne, the Somme, Verdun, and Passchendaele—the work also provides extensive coverage of the Eastern Front, the Gallipoli campaign, the war at sea, and the dawn of aerial combat. A solid, richly illustrated reference work for military history collections and students of early 20th-century warfare.…