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Growing up, I learned a lot about World War II, especially since my father and uncles were veterans of that conflict. Maybe because I was born many years after World War I, I learned very little about that war, even though my grandfather and great-uncle were veterans of that war. But that could not be all of it – I don’t remember learning much about World War I in my public school. Whatever the case, World War I is a little-known war, with mysterious causes and battles. However, it led directly to World War II, and caused the fall of the Islamic Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had threatened Christian Europe for centuries, ever since it had conquered the capital of the Byzantine Roman Empire, Constantinople, in 1453. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, from which my grandparents emigrated before the war, also fell, forming many new countries. You might say, with some truth, that World War I caused more changes than World War II did, or at least as much. World War I, by Tom McGowen, remedies this ignorance by providing a very readable, compact, survey of World War I, written at the middle school level. It is nicely illustrated with historical photographs (black and white, no color photography back then) and several color maps. The publisher is Franklin Watts, which is famous for good non-fiction books for children. You can also read the World Landmark book on World War I.