Worlds at War - Volume III. World and Imperial Wars, 1870-1945

Exploring the diversity of warfare practices on every continent from prehistoric times to the present day is the ambition of the Worlds at war. From Antiquity, the subject of the first volume, the formation of empires fuelled a vast process of military confrontation and exchange, before the era of the Great Discoveries, at the start of the second volume, triggered the integration of all the continents into a united martial space.

This third volume explores the world and imperial wars between 1870 and 1945, a historical sequence in which the new power of industrial weapons left its mark on so many areas, from colonised Africa to the trenches of the Somme, from the steppes of Russia to the vastness of the Pacific. Through a long-term analysis of a period marked by the subjection of the globe to the great military powers, and through a thematic approach - combatants, weapons, empires, mobilisations, refusals and war crimes - the authors, under the direction of André Loez, combine history at ground level, giving a place to all the ordinary players, with a global questioning of the importance of wars for the societies that lived through them. The text, illustrations and previously unpublished maps provide an insight into the diversity of human experiences of war around the world.