World War I

by Sean Connolly

Overview

What was it like to fight in World War I? What was it like to live in the trenches behind no-man's-land? What was it like to be a witness to history? Step back in time to World War I and see history through the eyes of those who lived it. Discovered what it was like to be a soldier during a trench warfare gas attack. Read the account of a Russian reporter in St. Petersburg when war was declared on Germany in 1914. Learn how it felt to be a German U-boat captain whose orders were to sink a British ship filled with men and horses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403436405
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	03/26/2003
Series:	Witness to History
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	11 - 13 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction — How do we know? — Alliances and crises — Shots at Sarajevo — Europe at war — Over by Christmas — The German advance — Trench warfare — The Eastern front — Gallipoli — Battles in the air — U-boats — The Irish uprising — The battle of Jutland — Total war — The United States enters the war — Gas attacks — Turmoil in Russia — The wider conflict — War poetry — Turning the tide — The armistice — A lasting peace? — What have we learned from World War I?