This title gives comprehensive information about:
- Major battles and battlefields - Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues - How to get there; what to see - Contemporary eyewitness accounts - Then-and-now photographs and maps

The guide helps us understand what it was like to have endured the ordeal of combat. Through their own words, we learn the feelings of those young men and women of many nationalities who fought and died. What were their private thoughts and fears? Their personal memories? Contemporary eyewitness accounts are woven into the fabric of this book, which has immediacy and vividness that marks a new departure in guidebooks.