Amazon.com description: Product Description: In August 1914, after almost a decade of sabre-rattling, arms races and localized wars, Europe erupted into the greatest conflict man had ever seen. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand saw the beginning of the war to end all wars, a war that it was reckoned would be over by Christmas but which, in reality, lasted over five years.

With battles on all fronts, from Russia to the Falklands, West Africa to East Africa and the Middle East, at sea, on land and by the fledgling air forces of the world, 1914’s war culminated in the famous football match on Christmas Day on the Western Front but that had seen the invasion of neutral Belgium, the Battle of the Marne and the sinking of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.