World War I Illustrated Atlas: Campaigns, Battles Weapons from 1914 to 1918

World War I Illustrated Atlas by Michael S. Neiberg is a atlas that shows the war strategies utilized and battle fronts occupied during World War I. I haven’t studied an atlas before and I am happy that I got a chance to study this atlas because it gave me a different perspective on World War I. The illustrated maps are simple and easy to understand and their background information complements the maps.

I really liked the simplicity of the maps and how they were illustrated to expound strategies and forts of the Axis and the Allies during the First World War. For each battle, an illustrated map is provided to help the reader understand the battle strategies. Furthermore, the maps are not heavily detailed; they depict places that were significant during different battles to either side. This helps the reader understand what the author explains in the paragraphs on the side. As I mentioned before, studying this atlas provided me with a different perspective on World War I, which is a military perspective. Although, literature and cinema have helped humanize the experiences of soldiers during the First World War, atlas’ like this one help people understand how different territories were significant during the war to either side, which caused the battles in the first place. For these reasons, I found this atlas to be simple and sufficiently detailed and illustrated in highlighting the events of World War I.

The information provided alongside the maps is very useful and complementary to the latter. It provides background to what happened in different battles. For example, the reasons that these battles occurred and the strategies that were utilized. This aids the reader in comprehending the events of the battle and the purpose behind them, rather than having short captions under each map. Moreover, the division of information is also very neat and concise; the author provides explanations of the background of the war, then he explains what happened on the eastern front and then the western front, which does not make the information convoluted and difficult to digest. Therefore, the information provided in this atlas is complementary to the maps and very helpful.

World War I Illustrated Atlas by Michael S. Neiberg is a nicely illustrated atlas that efficiently educates readers about the events of World War I.