As a founding event of the twentieth century, the Great War needed a great museum. At P,ronne, in the French department of the Somme, where men of twenty-five nationalities fought, the exceptional collections of the Historial of the Great War provide three points of view ? French, German and British ? of soldiers and civilians at the front and in the rear who shared a common, shattered destiny. This publication is based on the research of the Historial's Research Centre and makes full use of their resources, and offers general maps of the conflict as well as rich and varied illustrations. It will lead an interested public to a better general understanding of what the ?war culture? really was.