World War I and the Remaking of Modern World: Empire, Total War, Revolution, Fragile Peace, 1914-1919

World War I and the Remaking of the Modern World offers a clear and structured study of the conflict that transformed the twentieth century. Beginning with the tensions of imperial rivalry, alliance politics, nationalism, militarism, and the crisis of 1914, the book examines how a regional confrontation became a global war involving empires, colonies, soldiers, civilians, economies, and entire societies. The volume follows the war across its major fronts and phases, including the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the Balkans, the Ottoman fronts, the war at sea, colonial campaigns, and the final offensives of 1918. It explores trench warfare, industrialized violence, total war, propaganda, mobilization, military technology, civilian hardship, and the political strains that reshaped states and empires. Rather than presenting World War I only as a sequence of battles, this book places the conflict within a wider historical process. It considers the collapse of old empires, the Russian Revolution, the entry of the United States, the Treaty of Versailles, the redrawing of borders, and the unresolved tensions that shaped the interwar world.