Peter Englund is known to every person, since it is he, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the chairman of the jury of the Nobel Prize in Literature, who annually announces the names of Nobel Prize laureates. A world-famous scientist and historian, he based his book on the First World War on the diaries and memoirs of its participants. Nineteen completely different people - an adventurer, an ardent Latin American, whose services are refused by all armies except the Ottoman; Danish pacifist conscripted into the German army; an American woman with many children who spent the summer on an estate in Poland; Russian nurse; an Australian woman who drove her truck to Serbia to serve as a driver in the army - each of them writes about the war that befell him personally. The author “glued together” these diary entries in such a way that he achieved a stereoscopic effect - we see the war month after month simultaneously on all fronts. Everything terrible that happened in the world in the 20th century has its origins in the First World War, but little is remembered about it, too little is known. Historian Englund's book fills this gap. “The Delight and Pain of Battle” has been translated into almost thirty languages and has gone through six editions in the USA alone.