Description: The World in Flames is a bottom-up history of the Seven Years' War, exploring this epochal conflict from the perspective of contemporaries around the globe.
Review Quotes: An exciting history of the Seven Years' War as a global conflict, combining lucid analysis of the main events and their outcomes with sympathetic treatment of those caught up in the struggle. Particular attention is paid to how contemporaries perceived the complex interactions between the war's many theaters and how the conflict's expansive character changed how they saw the world.--Peter H. Wilson, author of Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500