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Index
Cover
Introduction
Part 1. The Coming of War
1. One More Alliance Might Have Helped
2. Battleships by Subscription
3. Did the Schlieffen Plan Exist?
4. Trench Warfare Was Predicted
5. Bluster in Brussels
6. Hitler Was a Draft Dodger
7. Franz Ferdinand Was Killed for His Plans to Reform Austria-Hungary
8. The Serbian Government Warned Austria-Hungary Not to Send Franz Ferdinand
9. Too Complicated by Half: Germany Fell Victim to Its Own Trickery
10. “Willy” and “Nicky”: Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II Negotiated in English
Part 2. 1914: Out
11. H.G. Wells Coined the Phrase “The War That Will End War”
12. Germany’s “Hymn of Hate”
13. Both Sides Banned “Enemy” Music
14. German Troops Fought Allies in Asia and Africa
15. When Generals Collapse
16. Marie Curie Invented Mobile X-Ray Machines
17. Flooding Flanders
18. Britain’s Bantam Battalions
19. Italy Switched Sides (Slowly)
20. Germany’s Jihad
21. Women Shamed Men Into Enlisting with White Feathers
22. Banning Booze Didn’t Help
23. France Ran Officially Sanctioned Brothels
24. Thousands of Americans Volunteered
25. Informal Truces Were Common
Part 3. 1915: Total War
26. Collateral Damage: The Death of Clara Haber
27. Germany Encouraged the “Young Turks” to Commit Genocide
28. The Worst Job on the Zeppelin
29. The Great Waste: Material Losses Were Insane
30. Germans Sent 29 Billion Pieces of Mail During the War
31. Kraft Invents “Process Cheese”
32. Kids at War
33. Russian Jews Were Glad to See the Germans
34. Gunther Plüschow: The Only POW to Escape Britain
35. Flying the Friendly Skies
36. Some Guys Have All the Trucks
37. US Supplied Most of the Allies’ Oil
38. Canary Girls
39. The Allies Violated Neutrality Too
40. The Ku Klux Klan Was (Re)Founded During the War
41. Henry Ford’s Peace Ship
Part 4. 1916: The Long Haul
42. Calculated Carnage: Verdun
43. Casualties at Verdun and the Somme Equaled the Entire US Civil War
44. Half the Easter Rising Leaders Were Poets
45. Lord Kitchener Was Killed by a British Ruse Gone Wrong
46. Avalanches Killed 50,000 on the Italian Front
47. Get the Guest
48. Souvenirs and Talismans
49. Germans Used Cargo Subs to Evade the Allied Blockade
50. Central Powers Unleashed a Wave of Sabotage Across the US
51. 140,000 Chinese Laborers Worked on the Western Front
52. Science Marches On: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
53. Life Was Tough in Neutral Countries
54. America’s Tobacco Conquered the World (Especially China)
55. Plastic Surgery Was Developed During the War
56. Animals Received Medals Too
57. Lawrence of Arabia Kind of Hated Camels
58. Everyone Hated Each Other—Especially Their Own Allies
Part 5. 1917: Breaking Points
59. Allies Painted “Dazzle Ships” Weird Colors and Patterns
60. The US Let Germany Use Its Telegraph (and Guess What Happened)
61. “Uncle Sam” Artist Used Himself As the Model
62. The Spy Who Sort of Was Me
63. Russia’s Reluctant Revolutionaries
64. Rising Sun in the West
65. US Bought the Virgin Islands to Keep U-Boats Out
66. John “Black Jack” Pershing, America’s Only “General of the Armies”
67. Half the French Army Mutinied in 1917
68. US Trained 75,000 “Four-Minute Men”
69. “The Loudest Sound in History”
70. Russia’s All-Women “Battalion of Death”
71. British Royal Family Changed Its Name to “Windsor”
72. The Flight of the L-59
73. The World Gets Jazz, Really Gets It, Man
74. Horrible Accidents Killed Thousands of People
Part 6. 1918: The Bitter End
75. The “Paris Gun” and America’s Plans for a Supergun
76. US Built the First Pilotless Drone
77. Fighting Across Siberia: The Czech Legion’s Amazing Escape
78. US Troops Occupied Large Parts of Russia
79. Gandhi Supported the British War Effort
80. The Choctaw Code Talkers
81. Americans Were Shocked by Racial Equality in Europe
82. STDs Were Rampant and Condoms Were Illegal in the US
83. Spanish Flu Actually Started in America, Maybe
84. Hitler Was Decorated by a Jewish Officer
85. “Soldier Millions”: Aníbal Milhais
86. Francis Pegahmagabow, the War’s Best Sniper
87. Alvin York, Pacifist War Hero
88. The US Navy’s Gay Sex Scandal
89. The US Was an “Associated,” Not “Allied” Power
Part 7. First World War Legacies
90. One Good Thing: Women’s Suffrage
91. Older Women Marry Younger Men
92. Cities Founded During the War
93. Chewing Gum
94. Poor Horses: Many Were Eaten after the War
95. Paul Kern, the Man Who Never Slept
96. Sanitary Napkins Were Invented During the War
97. Bringing Yogurt to the World
98. Germany Paid African Soldiers Pensions, If They Could Still Present Arms
99. People Are Still Being Killed by Old Munitions
100. Germany Paid Off Its Last Reparation in 2010
101. The German Ship That Inspired The African Queen Is Still in Service
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