1918

the long version

1918 saw the most dramatic and dynamic events since the opening shots of World War I, from the enormous German and Allied offensives on the Western Front to decisive battles in Italy, the Balkans and the Middle East. Exhausted by years of conflict, the nations fighting the war threw everything into the effort to achieve final victory right up until the Armistice. With contributions from ten expert historians from around the world, *1918* examines each of the major armies on land, the war at sea and in the air, as well as the campaigns on some of the forgotten fronts in this tumultuous final year of the war. It shows how the conflict helped forge new national identities and why, a hundred years on, it still exerts a strong hold on the popular consciousness.