The groundbreaking documentary series The Great War was first broadcast on BBC television in 1964. This book, by the distinguished military historian Correlli Barnett, a co-scriptwriter on the series, is being published in a new edition to accompany its first screening for almost four decades. The catastrophe that engulfed the European continent from 1914 to 1918 was so terrible and so enormous that those who survived it referred to it simply as the...