Illustrations
Maps
1-1 Mobilisation on the Eastern Front as of 11 August 1914
2-1 The Battle of Gheluvelt: The German Breakthrough at Ypres, October 1914
3-1 The Ottoman Empire at War on Five Fronts, 1915
4-1 Eastern Thrace and Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1914
4-2 Dardanelles–Eastern Thrace Campaign, 1915
5-1 The Attack of the German 5th Army on the US 1st Army at Verdun, March 1915
6-1 Approach of the Rival Fleets for the Battle of Jutland, May 1916
7-1 The Eastern Front, June 1916
7-2 The Brusilov Offensive, June 1916
8-1 The Battle of the Somme: Ground Taken During the First British ‘Bite’, 1 July 1916
9-1 The Allied Tank Attacks that Defeated the German Army in 1917
Plates
Chapter 1 Der Tag: The Germans Decision to Go East in 1914
1-2 General Helmuth von Molkte, Chief of the German Army General Staff
1-4 Russian POWs taken during the roll of German victories in 1914
Chapter 2 Vormarsch! The German Breakthrough at Ypres, 1914
2-1 German heavy howitzers in action
2-2 Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence VC
2-4 British and German troops locked in murderous combat at the Battle of Gheluvelt
2-5 Battle-worn French infantry during the harrowing retreat from Flanders, November 1914
Chapter 3 Kitchener of Arabia
3-1 Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome in 1914
3-2 Lieutenant General Sir Ian Hamilton, commander of the Constantinople Expeditionary Force
3-3 HMS Doris, the light cruiser whose cheeky raid on Alexandretta emphasised its weakness
3-4 Indian lancer cavalry in the drive on Aleppo
3-5 Machine-gunners of the Indian Corps at the Battle of Alexandretta
Chapter 4 The Queen of Cities Beckons
4-1 Venizelos and the Great Idea: A map of Great Greece with Venizelos’s portrait in the left corner
4-2 Venizelos and Constantine I, King of the Hellenes
4-3 Colonel Mustapha Kemal, commander of the Ottoman 9th Infantry Division at Gallipoli
4-4 Greek soldiers of A Corps fighting to cut off the Turkish 5th Army in Gallipoli
4-5 General Liman von Sanders, who commanded the Turkish 5th Army at Gallipoli
4-6 Constantine I and the Greek Army of Thrace on the march to Constantinople
4-8 Greek troops marching in the Allied victory parade in Paris
Chapter 5 Germania Delenda Est: America Enters the War, 1915
5-1 Former President Theodore Roosevelt visiting Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1910
5-2 General Frederick Funston, commander of the American Expeditionary Force.
5-4 Fort Douaumont, the key to the fortress complex of Verdun.
5-5 The marine counterattack at Verdun
Chapter 6 Britannia Rules the Waves: The Battle of Jutland, 1916
6-1 Admiral Sir John Jellicoe aboard his flagship HMS Iron Duke
6-3 British battlecruiser HMS Lion in action at the Battle of Jutland, 1916
Chapter 7 The Brusilov Offensive: Russia’s Glory
7-1 Pyotr Stolypin, the Russian defence minister
7-3 General Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, commander of the North- West Front against the Germans
7-6 British Lanchester armoured cars, part of the British Armoured Car Expeditionary Force in Russia
Chapter 8 The Somme Steamroller
8-1 Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson
8-2 British night bombardment at the Battle of the Somme
8-3 British infantry in the attack at the Battle of the Somme
8-4 Vanishing villages: Beaumont Hamel, 1916
Chapter 9 ‘From Mud, Through Blood to the Green Fields Beyond’: The Great Allied Tank Offensive of 1917
9-1 A damaged British tank at the Battle of Arras, April 1917
9-2 Light tanks in action at the Battle of St Quentin, 1917
9-3 A British tank smashing through a German trench at the Battle of St Quentin.
Chapter 10 German Strategic Bombing, the Murder of David Lloyd George, and the Rise of Lord Northcliffe
10-1 Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
10-2 German Gotha GV, heavy bomber, June 1917
10-4 Prime Minister David Lloyd George
All plates are supplied from the private collections of Dr Spencer Jones and Peter Tsouras.