This book offers a brief, straightforward, illustrated history of the First World War in some 96 pages. In particular, it explains the trenches; how they were built and what it was like to live and fight in them. There is a moving Foreword by Michael Morpugo.

The horrors of the First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, one hundred years later, we are asked to reflect upon it and remember what a disastrous episode of history it was