The very name “World War I” indicates that this has never happened in the entire history of mankind. For the first time, the death toll from military action was in the millions. For the first time, weapons of mass destruction were used in battle. At once the illusion was destroyed that humanity had left cruelty and anger in the past and had finally embarked on the path of progress. Here is an impartial chronicle of an irreconcilable struggle that bled the powerful European countries, and ultimately served as the prologue to the next, even more terrible catastrophe...