Challenged everything I thought I knew about this war.

Iain Dale

Churchill and Eberholst put the world back into the First World War. They portray the astonishing scale and reach of a war that might have started in Europe but was a genuinely global catastrophe.

Dan Snow

By focussing on the immense impact the conflict had on common people – from colonial subjects to women and even children – Ring of Fire prompts a dramatic reassessment of how we should view and tell the history of this terrible war.

James Holland

An eye-opening alternative to the well worn stories of brave tommies marching off to bash the Boche.

Charlie Higson

Wears its evident scholarship lightly on its sleeves, probes deeply, casts its net wide, and amounts to the new gold standard.

Peter Caddick-Adams, author of, 1945: Victory in the West

Panoramic and revelatory ... More than half a centuryafter Barbara Tuchman's seminal The Guns of August, this intricately researched and highly readable perspective on the great war makes for a worthy successor.

Alex Larman, The Observer