The History of the First World War (London: Penguin, 2004); Hew Strachan (ed), The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Alexander Watson, Ring of ...

A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global conflict – the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

And Edi Stark interviews World War One historian, Sir Hew Strachan, in a special edition of Stark Talk on Wednesday 7 November.