The First World WarIt was to be the war to end all wars and it began at 11. 15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would end officially almost five years later. Unofficially, it has never ended: The horrors we live with today were born in the First World War. It left millionscivilians and soldiersmaimed or dead. And it left us with new technologies of death: tanks, planes and submarines; reliable rapid fire