Einsteins war : how relativity triumphed amid the vicious nationalism of World War I The world of science before the war Science across nations The wars begin Increasing isolation The collapse of international science A vital victory To cross the trenches The borders of the universe The resistance to relativity Angels of the revolution The test The relativity circus Epilogue: The legacy of Einstein and Eddington. The birth of a world changing idea relativity and how it was shaped by the social upheaval and bloody horror of the First World War