Martin Gilbert - The Routledge Atlas of the First World War

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the course of the First World War is vividly set out in a series of 173 fascinating maps. Together, these maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that devastated large parts of Europe, destroying three Empires; these maps illustrate the military, social, political and economic aspects of the war. Starting with the pre-war tensions and war aims, the atlas covers:

• the early months of the war from the German attack on Belgium and France to the fierce fighting on the Western and Eastern Fronts
• the developing war in Europe and beyond from the Somme and Verdun to Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, in the Near East and Africa, and in the Pacific
• the war at sea and in the air from the Zeppelin and air raids to the naval battles, shipping losses and Atlantic convoys
• life at the front from the trench system, living underground, the mud of Passchendaele, the French and Russian mutinies
• technology and the intensifying war from phosgene gas to submarines, tanks and aerial bombardment
• the home fronts war supplies, munitions factories, the air defence of Britain, German food riots, the entry of the United States into the war, the Russian Revolution, and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires
• the aftermath the peace treaties and territorial changes, war debts, war deaths, and the new map of Europe.

This revised edition contains a new section depicting the visual remembrance of the war; a guide to the memorials and cemeteries that commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of his generation. An Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford of which he was a fellow for thirty years he is the official biographer of Winston Churchill and the author of eighty books, among them Churchill: A Life, The First World War, Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War, The Second World War and D-Day. For more information please visit www.martingilbert.com.

BOOKS BY MARTIN GILBERT

The Routledge Atlas of American History

The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Routledge Atlas of British History

The Routledge Atlas of the First World War

The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust

The Appeasers (with Richard Gott)

The European Powers, 19001945

The Roots of Appeasement

Childrens Illustrated Bible Atlas

Atlas of British Charities

The Holocaust: Maps and Photographs

The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps

The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps

Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat

Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City

Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century

Exile and Return: The Struggle for Jewish Statehood

Israel: A History

Auschwitz and the Allies

The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today

Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time

The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction

The Boys: Triumph over Adversity

The First World War

THE CHURCHILL BIOGRAPHY

Volume III: The Challenge of War, 19141916

Document Volume III (in two parts)

Volume IV: World in Torment, 19171922

Document Volume IV (in three parts)

Volume V: The Coming of War, 19221939

Document Volume V: The Exchequer Years, 19221929

Document Volume V: The Wilderness Years, 19291935

Document Volume V: The Coming of War, 19361939

Volume VI: Finest Hour, 19391941

Churchill War Papers I: At the Admiralty, September 1939May 1940

Churchill War Papers II: Never Surrender, MayDecember 1940

Churchill War Papers III: The Ever-Widening War, 1941

The Routledge Historical Atlas of Jerusalem

The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History

The Routledge Atlas of Russian History

The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War

Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War

The Second World War

D-Day

The Day the War Ended

Empires in Conflict: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19001933

Descent into Barbarism: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19341951

Challenge to Civilization: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19521999

Never Again: A History of the Holocaust

The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History

Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith

The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

In Search of Churchill

Churchill and America

Churchill and the Jews

The Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy

Volume VII: Road to Victory, 19411945

Volume VIII: Never Despair, 19451965

Churchill: A Photographic Portrait

Churchill: A Life

EDITIONS OF DOCUMENTS

Britain and Germany between the Wars

Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood

Servant of India: Diaries of the Viceroys Private Secretary, 19051910

Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary of Avraham Tory

Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence 19371964

Martin Gilbert

First published 1970 as The Atlas of the First World War by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published 1985 as The Dent Atlas of the First World War by J. M. Dent Ltd

Second edition published 1994 and 2002
as The Routledge Atlas of the First World War
by Routledge

Reprinted (twice) 2003

Third edition published 2009
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1970, 1994, 2002, 2009 Martin Gilbert

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The Routledge atlas of the First World War / Martin Gilbert.3rd ed.

p. cm.(Routledge historical atlases)

1. World War, 19141918CampaignsMaps. 2. Historical geographyMaps.

I. Title. II. Title: Atlas of the First World War.

G1037.G5 2008

940.410223dc22

2008021885

ISBN10: 0415460379 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0415460387 (pbk)

ISBN13: 9780415460378 (hbk)

ISBN13: 9780415460385 (pbk)

The idea of teaching history by a series of maps was new to me until Martin Gilberts historical atlas of British history had come my way. I was at once intensely interested and later studied those of other countries and nations which he published. Such visual pictures of historical facts cannot fail to be of real value to students in schools and universities; they would look through a window, as it were, at the subject before getting down to a detailed studywhich is, of course, essential.