Spanish Peaks Library District

(inside cover) The 20th century witnessed the fiercest confrontations in human history. In these near-limitless conflicts, rival powers mobilized all of their might - military, civilian, technological and industrial - to overwhelm or even annihilate each other. Nearly 40 million soldiers were to die in this era of total war.

Examines the causes, course and social implications of World War I, as well as technological and strategic advances of the time.