Combat Reports From the First World War: A Military History of the Great War From the Battlefield Commanders

by John Joseph Pershing, Douglas Haig, Paul von Hindenburg

The First World War was a defining event that determined the course of the entire 20th century. The bloody quagmire of 1914-1918 led to the birth of modern “total warfare” and modern weapons like the tank, the airplane, chemical weapons, the machine gun, the massed artillery barrage, the aircraft carrier, and the submarine. Today, 100 years later, we still live with the effects of the Great War. This volume is a history of World War One as it was reported at the time by the Entente and German Generals. Includes the official military field reports on the battles at the Marne, Tannenberg, Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele, Cambrai, Belleau Wood, and others. Illustrated.

299 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2018

About the author

General of the Armies John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing was a senior United States Army officer, most famous as the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18.