Contents

      List of Illustrations

      List of Maps

      Glossary

      Preface: Death at Gouzeaucourt

      Prologue: ‘Surprise was complete’

  1. Decision on the Marne

  2. ‘Neglect nothing’

  3. ‘Death will have a rich harvest’

  4. ‘Another black day’

  5. ‘The incredible roar of massed guns’

  6. ‘The whole thing was simply magnificent’

  7. Enter the Americans

  8. ‘A country of horror and desolation’

  9. Return to the Wilderness

10. ‘Just one panorama of hell’

11. The Tomb of the German World Empire

12. ‘The most desperate battle of our history’

13. ‘A last struggle of despair’

14. ‘Cowards die many times’

15. Armistice at Compiègne

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgements

      Select Bibliography

      References

      Index