Captures the pathos and absurdity of the conflict in a way that few others have.
~American Reference Books Annual
There is really nothing comparable to this volume.
~Booklist
Almanacs represent the final book(s) needed to complete a collection regarding a particular period in history. David Burg and L. Edward Purcell's Almanac of World War I is such a book.
~BookLovers
This valuable reference book provides a day-by-day account of the First World War, with each entry divided geographically.
~Canadian Military History
Among the WWI chronologies published over the past decade, Burg and Purcell's is unique in the amount of analysis it contains. The main body is a detailed day-by-day account of the war's events, emphasizing the military dimensions but also touching of politics and diplomacy.
~Choice
Daily events, topical descriptions, biographical sketches, informative sidebars, maps, and illustrations combine to give a succinct account of what was happening in each of the principal theaters of the war.
~Library Lane
The best book of its type on the subject.
~McCormick (SC) Messenger
A useful reference for the Great War.
~Paper Wars
Whereas most accounts of World War I zero in on the muddy trenches of the Western front, Burg and Purcell's work puts that theater in the context of the larger war.
~Tallahassee Democrat
It's a great reference, so encompassing and valuable the natural question is why it took so long to produce such a resource.
~Tallahassee Democrat
The daily entries, the heart of the almanac, are particularly apt in what the authors have chosen to highlight. The book has value for buffs and scholars alike.
~Timothy K. Nenninger