Accrington Pals: 49
Agadir Crisis, 1911: 4
Aircraft and Air Power: 24, 27, 45, 50, 52, 63–4, 73, 80, 92, 97, 103, 105–6, 111–12, 115, 125, 138–40
Albert I (King of the Belgians): 8
Algerians: 21
Americans: xvii, 8, 29, 59, 93–4, 97–9, 106, 109–11, 114–5, 121–31, 135, 140, 142
Anti-Tank Guns: 81
ANZACS: See Australians and/or New Zealanders
Arabs: 88
Armentières: 95
Arras: 13, 37, 50, 62–6, 69, 77, 94, 107–8
Artillery: 8, 15–16, 20–8, 35, 38, 40–1, 45–6, 48, 51–2, 60, 63–4, 66, 73, 78–81, 84, 90–5, 97, 103, 110–11, 114–6, 121–2, 125, 140–1
Attrition: 20, 36, 40–1, 52, 62, 74–5, 83, 142
Aubers Ridge: 21
Australians: xvii, 65, 73, 94, 103–4, 108, 112, 136, 140, 143
Austro-Hungarian Empire: 3–6, 113
Balaklava: 46
Bean, C E W: 140
‘Bite and Hold’: 46, 79, 106–7
Bradley, Omar: 131
Braithwaite, Walter: 111
Broodseinde: 79
Bruchmüller, Georg: 90–1, 94–5, 97, 99
Brussels: 9
Butchers & Bunglers': 42, 49, 121–2, 129, 138–9, 142–3
Byng, Julian: 81, 83, 90, 92, 107–8, 110
Cambrai: 50, 61, 65, 77–8, 81–4, 87–8, 92, 103, 106, 109–10
Canadians: xvii, 21, 62–3, 79, 103–4, 8, 114, 124, 129
Canberra: 136
Casualties: 3, 15, 20, 22–3, 28–9, 31, 36, 38, 40–1, 45, 49–53, 65–6, 68, 73, 84, 87, 93, 95, 97, 99–100, 104–7, 109, 112, 114, 116, 126, 129, 135–6, 142
Cavalry: 24, 49–50, 64, 75, 79, 83, 99, 103–5, 114, 126, 138
Charteris, John: 88
Chemin des Dames: 13, 62, 65–6, 95–6, 99, 125
Churchill, Winston: 20, 24, 31, 87, 135, 137
Clark, Mark: 131
Corbett, Julian: 30
Creeping Barrage: 41–2, 48–50, 52, 63, 73, 108, 110, 112
Dardanelles: 8, 20, 30–1, 35, 87, 135
Defence in Depth: 21, 27, 59, 61, 66, 78, 98–9, 112
Derby (Lord): 19
Edmonds, James: 139
Eisenhower, Dwight: 130
Falkenhayn, Erich von: 13, 35–8, 40–1, 142
Fashoda Crisis, 1898: 4
Fayolle, Marie: 106
Festubert: 21
Flamethrowers: 15, 38, 91, 140
Foch, Ferdinand: 66, 87, 94, 100, 106–7, 109, 113, 116
Football: 28
Fortification: 8, 15, 26, 37, 39, 48, 52, 60–1, 77, 110–11
Franz Ferdinand, Austrian Archduke: 5
Galliéni: 68
Gas: 21–3, 25, 39–40, 42, 77–90, 111, 126, 129, 140–1
Gough, Hubert: 51, 64, 75, 78, 88, 90–3, 97, 99, 135
Graffiti: 61
Graves, Robert: 137
Grenades (or ‘bombs’): 15, 22, 35, 48, 140
Guderian, Heinz: 105
Haig, Douglas: 13, 25, 40, 45, 49, 51, 61, 74–9, 87–8, 93–5, 109–10, 113, 115, 128, 137–8
Hamel: 94
Hazebrouck: 95
HE: 15, 23, 46–8, 55, 63, 111, 140–1
Hindenburg Line: 59–65, 77, 81, 108–13, 122
Hindenburg, Paul: 41
Horne, Henry: 107
Indians: 69
Industry: 35, 106, 121, 123, 140
Infantry: 20, 23, 28, 45–6, 51–2, 63, 65–6, 78, 80–1, 84, 90–2, 99, 104, 126
Joffre, Joseph: 11, 13, 20, 25, 36, 40–1, 68, 135
Jiinger, Ernst: 53
Jütland: 42
Kemmel: 95
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert: 12, 19, 35, 49, 68
Korea: 142
Kut al Amara: 30
Langemarck: 13
Lanrezac, Charles: 12
Lawrence, T E: 88
Leopold II: 8
Liège: 8
Lions Led by Donkeys': See ‘Butchers and Bunglers’, above
‘Live and Let Live’: 28
Lloyd George, David: 20, 24–5, 59, 61, 87–8, 93–4, 111, 137
Ludendorff, Erich: 41, 59, 90, 93–100, 106, 108, 113, 116
Lyautey, Herbert: 68
Lys: 95
MacArthur, Douglas: 130
Machine Guns: 15–16, 22, 48–9, 52, 60, 80, 88, 91, 103, 112–3, 125, 129, 140
Maginot, André: 141
Maps: 80
Marne: 11, 12, 62, 96, 98–100, 103, 124
Marshall, George C: 130
Maxse, Ivor: 138
Mesopotamia: 8
Messines: 23, 69, 73, 76–8, 95
Mexico: 123
Moltke, Helmuth von (The Younger): 6, 12, 13
Monroe Doctrine: 123
Mosier, John: 122
Motor Transport: 39
Mutinies: 67, 74, 106, 116, 135–6
Navies/Naval Affairs: 42, 73, 88, 116, 121–2, 124, 141
Neuve Chapelle: 21, 23, 29, 48, 95
‘New Armies’: xvii, 19, 35, 45, 49
New Zealanders: 115
Nivelle, Robert: 40–1, 59, 62, 65–9, 95, 98–9, 135
46th North Midland Division: 111–2
Noyon: 13, 20, 25, 59, 93, 97–8, 107
Ors: 115
Passchendaele: See ‘Ypres’, especially p. 79
Peace Negotiations: 113–4, 116–7, 123, 129
Pershing, John: 93–4, 109, 124, 127–30
Pétain, Henri: 22, 39–41, 66–7, 93–4, 97–8, 113
Plan XVII: 9
Plumer, Herbert: 73, 78–84, 110
Predicted Fire: 65, 80–1, 90, 103, 110
Radio: 26
RAF: See ‘Aircraft and Air Power’, above Railways: 39, 95
Rawlinson, Henry: 46, 51, 103, 107, 109, 121
Realpolitik: 4
RFC: See ‘Aircraft and Air Power’, above Richthofen, Manfred von: 64
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria: 12
Russians: 3–4, 6–7, 29, 40, 59, 67–8, 90–1, 93, 136, 140
St Clair, William: 137
St Mihiel: 13, 37, 109, 124–5, 128
St Quentin: 83, 88, 90–1, 95, 99, 108–11
Sassoon, Siegfried: 135
Schlieffen, Alfred von: 7, 10–12, 36
Shrapnel: 46
Sixt von Arnim, Friedrich: 61
Somme: 35–6, 40, 42, 45–55, 59, 61–4, 66, 73, 79, 94–5, 97, 103, 105, 107–8, 121, 125–6, 129
Spain: 140
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von: 130
‘Stormtroops’: 22–3, 38, 90, 99
Submarines: 29, 42, 59, 123–4, 140
Tanks: 23–4, 50–1, 65, 78, 81–3, 87, 92, 94, 98–9, 103–6, 108, 111–12, 116, 121, 125, 130, 138
Thompson, P A: 139
Training: 125
36th Ulster Division: 49
USA: See ‘Americans’, above
Vanguards: 10
Fort Vaux: 39
Verdun: 13, 35–42, 45–6, 52–3, 59, 68–9, 74, 125, 128, 141–2
Villers-Bretonneux: 93–4, 124–5
Vimy Ridge: 13, 22–3, 25, 62–3, 65–6, 77
Volunteers: 19
Weather: 26, 52, 66, 77–9, 91, 103, 108, 111–12
Wells, H G: 23
Woodrow Wilson, Thomas: 114, 122–3, 129
Wynne, G C: 139
Ypres: 13, 21–3, 37, 39–40, 52, 61, 66–7, 73–84, 87, 95, 109–10, 125, 137–8, 141
Zeppelins: 24
Zimmermann Telegram: 123