Table of Contents
Contents
BATTLE OF MONS
ARTILLERY
The Great Retreat
The Battle of the Marne
JOSEPH JOFFRE
The Race to the Sea
Fighting to a Standstill
THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE
The Battle of Tannenberg
PAUL VON HINDENBURG
Austro-Hungarian Failures
The Battle for Poland
CAVALRY
Turkey Enters the War
African Diversions
Confrontation at Sea
WARSHIPS AT SEA
Coronel and the Falklands
War in the East
STALEMATE 1915
Introduction
Timeline
Mobilizing Resources
TRENCH WARFARE
LIFE IN THE TRENCHES
Failure on the Western Front
TRENCH FIGHTING EQUIPMENT
Second Ypres
CHEMICAL WARFARE
Italy Enters the War
ANZAC TROOPS
The Gallipoli Campaign
BATTLE OF LONE PINE
The Armenian Massacre
IN SERVICE OF THE EMPIRE
COLONIAL TROOPS
Disaster in Mesopotamia
The Battle at Dogger Bank
The Sinking of the Lusitania
WARTIME POSTERS
America and the European War
The Zeppelin Raids
Campaigns on the Eastern Front
ANIMALS AT WAR
MACHINE GUNS
Serbia Crushed
The Artois-Loos Offensive
RECONNAISSANCE AND COMMUNICATION
YEAR OF BATTLES 1916
Introduction
Timeline
Facing Deadlock
The German Offensive at Verdun
VERDUN
PHILIPPE PÉTAIN
The French Fight Back at Verdun
FORT DOUAUMONT
The Easter Rising
INTELLIGENCE AND ESPIONAGE
Slav Nationalism
The Battle of Jutland
ON BOARD THE SMS DERFFLINGER
The Brusilov Offensive
Kitchener’s Armies
DOUGLAS HAIG
The Somme Offensive
THE FIRST DAY OF THE SOMME
Attrition on the Somme
MEDICAL TREATMENT
Dogfights and Aces
DOGFIGHT
WARPLANES
The Romanian Campaign
The Arab Revolt
The Strains of War
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
Germany’s New Order
REVOLUTION AND DISILLUSION 1917
Introduction
Timeline
The Tsar Overthrown
America Enters the War
WOODROW WILSON
Organizing America for War
Peace Initiatives and War Aims
The U-boat Onslaught
ERIC LUDENDORFF
The Nivelle Offensive
The Battle of Arras
SHELL CASINGS
CANADIANS IN THE WAR
The German Bomber Offensive
The Kerensky Offensive
THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY
Messines Ridge
Third Ypres
PASSCHENDAELE
Italian Disaster at Caporetto
False Dawn at Cambrai
TANK WARFARE
The Bolshevik Revolution
Guerilla War in East Africa
Naval War in the Mediterranean
From Gaza to Jerusalem
RECORDING THE WAR
VICTORY AND DEFEAT 1918
Introduction
Timeline
Home Fronts
THE GERMAN HOME FRONT
Trench Warfare Transformed
STORMTROOPER EQUIPMENT
German Victory in the East
The Michael Offensive
THE OPENING OF THE MICHAEL OFFENSIVE
The German Search for Victory
The Battle of Belleau Wood
The Second Battle of the Marne
GAS ATTACK
FERDINAND FOCH
The Zeebrugge Raid
Climax of the Air War
AERIAL COMBAT
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
Allied Intervention in Russia
WRITERS AT WAR
Turning Point at Amiens
Taking the St. Mihiel Salient
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive
JOHN PERSHING
Attacking the Hindenburg Line
ST. QUENTIN CANAL
Turkey and Bulgaria Defeated
Italy Victorious
Mutiny and Revolution
The Armistice
CELEBRATIONS
AFTERMATH 1919 – 1923
Introduction
Timeline
Devastated World
The Paris Peace Conference
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
The Versailles Treaty
SIGNING THE VERSAILLES TREATY
Postwar Conflicts
Never Again
MONUMENT TO THE FALLEN
In Memoriam
Index
Acknowledgments
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