Simon Heffer

The Great War, viewed from all sides

In Pandora’s Box, Jörn Leonhard views the conflict from all sides, ranging from Europe to the far-flung corners of empire

issue 05 May 2018

  • Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War

    Jörn Leonhard, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller

    Harvard University Press

The historiography of the Great War is stupendous, the effects of the conflict being so far-reaching that even today historians are finding angles hitherto unexplored that they can make books out of; or, at the lower end of the scale, they are content to retell the old story in a different way.

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