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"The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." So said British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Gray on the eve of the Great War in 1914.The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917; Spain was riven by civil war in the 30's, while Japan invaded China, and Mussolini invaded Abyssinia.World at War: 1914-1939 uses contemporaneous reports and photographs, including many eyewitness accounts, to show how these conflicts developed, describing the key battles, tactical decisions and turning points that settled the outcomes.

The United Nations sat for the first time in 1946, its charter expressing lofty aims regarding worldwide peace and security. The Iron and Bamboo curtains descended rapidly, leaving the world divided between communism and capitalism, in a nuclear race and delicate balance based on mutually assured destruction.The Cold War played out in Korea, The Cuban Missle Crisis, Vietnam, the disintegration of the Eastern bloc, Algeria, Angola, Kenya, Congo, Pakistan and India. Although a third world war has been averted, and the use of nuclear weapons confined to testing, war remains an ever-present evil.

World at War: World War Two uses contemporaneous reports and photographs from the Daily Mail archives, including many eyewitness accounts, to show how the conflict developed, describing the key battles, tactical decisions and turning points that settled the outcome

Chronik der Kriege: 1914 bis heute beleuchtet die Konflikte, die das 20. und beginnende 21. Jahrhundert zur blutigsten Epoche der Geschichte werden liessen. Zeitgenössische Artikel und Fotografien aus dem Archiv der Daily Mail, darunter viele Augenzeugenberichte, dokumentieren die Entwicklung der bewaffneten Auseinandersetzungen und beschreiben die ausschlaggebenden Schlachten, taktischen Entscheidungen und Wendepunkte.