num_pages: 448
description: A bestselling historian and a brilliant artist have combined their talents to create a stunning visual history of global war and revolution from 1914 to 1945.Dan Jones and Marina Amaral tell the epic harrowing and world-changing story--in narrative form with colorized images--of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the first atom bomb.The World Aflame embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 and the tensions ideologies and economic forces that set them in motion but also the revolutions in Russia; civil wars in Ireland and Spain; American interventions in Latin America colonial wars in Morocco Ethiopia and Palestine; and events on the domestic 'fronts' of the belligerent nations.A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen and informative words The World Aflame offers a moving--and often terrifying--perspective on the bloodiest century in human history.
language: English
title: The World Aflame: The Long War 1914 - 1945
publisher: Head of Zeus