School History of the Great War

The Great War changed everything. Written while the guns were still echoing across Europe, this textbook captures a nation trying to understand what had just happened to the world. World War I killed a generation, redrew the map of Europe, and shattered the belief that civilization was inherently progressive. Charles Coulomb writes for young readers, but the material doesn't condescend. He traces the tangled alliances that locked nations into conflict, the assassination in Sarajevo that lit the fuse, the trenches that became mass graves, and America's slow awakening to a war that started oceans away but ended up on her shores. What makes this book particularly compelling is its American focus. Why did Wilson keep the nation neutral for so long? What finally pulled the United States into the slaughter? And most movingly, what did those who lived through it fear for the generations to come? This is history as it was being written, by someone who knew he was witnessing the end of one world and the anxious birth of another.