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This visual narrative of World War One chronicles four explosive years between 1914 and 1918 when guns roared, soldiers and civilians perished, and humankind trembled while holding its collective breath. World War One KILLING FIELDS delivers an explicit overview of World War One. Experience the horrors of war with this chilling narrative of WWI where battlefields having familiar names like Verdun, Somme, Gallipoli, and Flanders witnessed the deaths of millions. World War One (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as World War I, the First World War, or The Great War, was a global conflict originating in Europe, lasting from July 28, 1914 until the cessation of hostilities commenced at 11 oclock a.m. (French time), November 11, 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars, it led to the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars and one of the deadliest conflicts in recorded human history. An estimated 9 to 11 million combatants and 6 to 13 million civilians perished as a direct result of the war, while wartime genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic lead to another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide. Much of the fighting took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications, separated by the infamous "no man's land," stretching south from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and, for the first time, in the air. By the end of the war or soon thereafter, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist. National borders were redrawn, with nine independent nations restored or created, and Germany's colonies parceled out among the victors. During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the Big Four powers (Britain, France, the United States, and Italy) imposed their terms in a series of treaties. The League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing repetition of such a devastating conflict. But this effort failed. Economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, and feelings of humiliation, particularly in Germany, eventually contributed to the start of the Second World War. World War One KILLING FIELDS by Cotter Bass provides a graphic overview of the battlefield horrors of World War One. Readers are cautioned regarding the graphic nature of the photographs in this narative.