Short History World

"If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work." —Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University

'A clearly written, remarkably comprehensive guide to the greatest story on Earth - man's journey from the earliest times to the modern day. Highly recommended.' - Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
'Just what we all wanted but were too scared to ask for: everything that ever happened in one digestible, readable book.' - Matt Ridley, author

World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagined proportions as the same ground – places like Ypres and the Somme – was fought over again and again. Other major bloody battles remain vivid in memory to this day: Gallipoli and the Battle of Jutland are but two examples. Europe was at war with itself, and the effect on Western civilization was profound, its repercussions felt even today.

World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War.