The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern
Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war
reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly
affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith
Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations and shows how they
reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such
as Gallipoli, Verdun and the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter
Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia and Russia, where the
killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country's
empire. And, in charting