Everything you need to know about World War I

Tens of thousands of works attest to the interest aroused by a war that began as a regional conflict in a remote region of Europe -the Balkans- and that dragged the great powers of its time into combat. A carnage that caused the death of at least ten million people and left both victors and vanquished exhausted.
The "Great War," as its contemporaries called it, changed the course of humanity. It mobilized sixty-five million soldiers and was fought on battlefields across five continents. One hundred years later, its origins, its development, and its consequences are the subject of intense academic debates worldwide.
It was a conflict with incredible stories, such as that of the English soldier who spared the life of a young Hitler; the ingenuity of German scientists to "invent" food from tar; or the spontaneous truce that the combatants declared on Christmas of 1914, which included an incident-free football match between men who, shortly after, would kill each other.
The Great War left a legacy that is still valid: it began with an assassination committed by an international secret network that answered to no government; it modified the European, African, and Asian maps; it generalized the use of chemical weapons, today the focus of so many controversies; it catapulted the United
States as a world power and represented a harsh blow to Europe's civilizing image, which, from that moment on, began to lose its overseas colonies.
Everything you need to know about the First World War is a compendium of carefully selected episodes, some not so well-known, others exceptional, but all of them, through the precise and sensitive pen of Santiago Farrell, notable and moving. These stories update the traumatic event of the war and warn that what we call "civilization" needs a daily commitment.

Tens of thousands of works attest to the interest aroused by a war that began as a regional conflict in a remote region of Europe -the Balkans- and that dragged the great powers of its time into combat. A carnage that caused the death of at least ten million people and left both victors and vanquished exhausted.
The "Great War," as its contemporaries called it, changed the course of humanity. It mobilized sixty-five million soldiers and was fought on battlefields across five continents. One hundred years later, its origins, its development, and its consequences are the subject of intense academic debates worldwide.
It was a conflict with incredible stories, such as that of the English soldier who spared the life of a young Hitler; the ingenuity of German scientists to "invent" food from tar; or the spontaneous truce that the combatants declared on Christmas of 1914, which included an incident-free football match between men who, shortly after, would kill each other.
The Great War left a legacy that is still valid: it began with an assassination committed by an international secret network that answered to no government; it modified the European, African, and Asian maps; it generalized the use of chemical weapons, today the focus of so many controversies; it catapulted the United
States as a world power and represented a harsh blow to Europe's civilizing image, which, from that moment on, began to lose its overseas colonies.
Everything you need to know about the First World War is a compendium of carefully selected episodes, some not so well-known, others exceptional, but all of them, through the precise and sensitive pen of Santiago Farrell, notable and moving. These stories update the traumatic event of the war and warn that what we call "civilization" needs a daily commitment.