by Simon Heffer
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Copyright © Simon Heffer 2019
Jacket imagery: 1st Life Guards Trooper Wannell departing Waterloo Station, 1916. He survived the war. Photo by Christina Broom © Museum of London. Women in an English shell factory, 1916. World History Archive / Alamy. Statesmen of World War 1 by Sir James Guthrie © National Portrait Gallery, London.
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First published by Random House Books in 2019
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 9781473555969