The First World War - Global War 1/6

The Great War rapidly went global as the European powers drew on their colonial empires to fight each others. Royal Navy squadrons chased German warships commanded by brilliant maverick seamen accross the globe. The Japanese seized Tsingtao from the Germans. And in Africa German commander Von Lettow-Vorbeck fought a very successful nuisance war against the British.

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