“Tuesday 4 August 1914” by Ian Ribbons

An hour-by-hour account of the events throughout the world on the first day of the war that was to last four years and cost eight million lives.

“Hour by Hour, this day plunges the world in chaos, and brings 40 years European peace to an end. This book is the story of those hours and of what happened in them. Events across the world are recorded in the actual order they occurred, by Greenwich Mean Time, and not by the local time of different countries.”.

Hard covered, 80 page book with dust jacket and plastic cover. Beautifully illustrated throughout by the author. It is a 1970 first edition published by Oxford University Press. Good condition.