The Story of the First World War for Children (1914-1918)

John Malam studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, after which he worked as an archaeologist at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire. He is now an author specialising in information books for children and is a National Literacy Trust Reading Champion. He lives in Cheshire with his wife, a teacher, and has two grown-up children.

Europe Divided • Gearing Up for War • The Peace is Shattered • Europe Goes to War • The British Army • The Fighting Begins • The Eastern Front • The Western Front • The French Army • Digging In • Trench Warfare • The Great Guns • The German Army • The Gallipoli Campaign • War at Sea • War in Africa • Chemical Warfare • Italy Enters the War • War in the Air • 1916 • The First Tanks • America Joins the War • 1917 • War in the Desert • Women at War • 1918 • The War Ends • Animals at War • Legacy of War • Glossary and Index.