World War I Begins: 100th Anniversary

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated at Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian nationalist on June 28, 1914, touching off the global conflict that became World War I.  The "Great War" pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan.  The introduction of modern technology to warfare resulted in unprecedented carnage and destruction, with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of the war in November 1918.

Here are recent titles on the First World War:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: a world without World War I
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the romance that changed the world
Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to war
The Great and Holy War: how World War I became a religious crusade
The Great War: a photographic narrative
The Great War: July 1, 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme
Hundred Days: the campaign that ended World War I
An Illustrated Guide to Bombers of World War I and II
July 1914: countdown to war
The Last of the Doughboys: the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War
Lawrence in Arabia: war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East
A Mad Catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire
The Month That Changed the World: July 1914
Sergeant Stubby: how a stray dog and his best friend helped win World War I and stole the heart of a nation
The Sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914
The War of Attrition: fighting the First World War
The War That Ended Peace: the road to 1914
World War I: the definitive visual history, from Sarajevo to Versailles