PEACE AND WAR: Britain in 1914

Portrays every facet of a year that changed Britain forever: from gun-running in Ulster to an attack by suffragettes on Velazquez's Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery; from the launch of the ocean liner HMHS Brittanic to the publication of the avant-garde magazine BLAST; from the year's benign beginnings to a nightmarish descent into war. Fully illus.