num_pages: 164
description: From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous and bloody course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 164 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its military, social, political and economic aspects. Beginning with the tensions that already existed, the atlas * the early months of the from the fall of Belgium to the fierce fighting at Ypres and Tannenberg* the developing war in from Gallipoli to the horrors of the Somme and Verdun* life at the from living underground, the trench system and the mud of Passchendaele to the war graves* war in the air and at from the Zeppelin raids to the battles in the North Sea, shipping losses and the Atlantic convoys* technology and the new from phosgene gas attacks to submarines, tanks and mines* the home from German food riots to the air defence of Britain, the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Austria-Hungary* the from war debts and war deaths to the new map of Europe.
language: English
title: The Routledge Atlas of the First World War
publisher: Routledge