The World at War was written by Georg Brandes in 1917. Brandes navigates through the historiography of events that lead to the First World War. From 1881 Brandes begins to trace the steps that give the Kaiser his power in Germany as well as the Eastern theater's harsh conditions, such as the persecution of the Jewish peoples in Russia's Poland. Baghdad is also examined with its implication on trade restrictions as industry was a very big part of the implications of war during the Great War.