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Cover Title Dedication Copyright Contents Timeline Maps Introduction Part One: 1914

Introduction The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo, 28 June 1914 “A Stone has Begun to Roll Downhill”: A German Diary, 28 June–25 July 1914 Jean Jaurès is Murdered, Paris, 31 July 1914 War Fever in St Petersburg, 1 August 1914 The Drift to War: the View from 10 Downing Street, London, 1–3 August 1914 Britain Declares War, 4 August 1914 Joining Up, Summer-Autumn 1914 “The Tommy” Bank Holiday at the Seaside, Brightlingsea, England, 6 August 1914 To the Front: A German Soldier Writes Home, 7 August 1914 Protest of A Pacifist, London, 15 August 1914 The German Army Enters Brussels, 21 August 1914 Cavalry Skirmish, Etalle, Belgium, 22 August 1914 Western Front: the Retreat from Mons, 23 August–25 September 1914 A Pilot Encounters the Enemy, Western Front, August 1914 Home Front: A Long Week in the Country, Essex, England, 29 August–6 September 1914 Eastern Front: the Russian “Steam-Roller” Moves Into Prussia, August 1914 Hindenburg Reports the German Victory at Tannenberg, East Prussia, 31 August 1914 Children’s Playground Song, England, September 1914 The Battle of the Marne: Private Frank Richards in Action, France, 5–9 September 1914 Fleeing the German Advance, France, September 1914 Western Front: Pour Encourager Les Autres, 12 September 1914 U-9 Sinks the Aboukir, Cressy And Hogue, North Sea, 22 September 1914 “The Men Went Down Literally Like Dominoes in A Row”: Machine Guns in Action, Russian Poland, 8 October 1914 Days in the Life of A British Pow, Doberitz Camp, Germany, October 1914–August 1915 Home Front: Rumours And Jangled Nerves, England, 19 October 1914 “First Ypres”: Sergeant Bell Loses His Leg, 29 October 1914 Night Patrol, Ypres, October 1914 A Song of Lament to the Old Regular Army, Autumn 1914 Western Front: Life in the Trenches, Autumn-Winter 1914 “It is All the Best Fun”: the Hon. Julian Grenfell Writes Home, Flanders, 3 November 1914 Into Battle, 1915 Christmas in the Trenches, Western Front, December 1914

Part Two: 1915

Introduction The Battle of Neuve Chapelle: A Private’s Diary, France, 10–12 March 1915 Kitchener’s Army: A Self-Portrait, 1915 The Russians Capture Przemysl, Galicia, 30 March 1915 One Man’s War: Sergeant S.V. Britten at Ypres, 17–26 April 1915 Recruiting Poster for the Women’s Land Army, Britain, 1915 Gas! the Attack at Ypres, 22 April 1915 Gallipoli, the Landings: the View from the Boats, 25 April 1915 Gallipoli, the Landings: the View from the Beach, 25 April 1915 Western Front: Lance Corporal Baxter Saves A Wounded Man, 27 April 1915 The Sinking of the Lusitania, North Atlantic, 7 May 1915 Hun Baiting, London, 12 May 1915 One Man’s War: the Diary of Private Horace Bruckshaw, Gallipoli, 9 May–13 July 1915 Over the Top, Ypres, Summer 1915 A Prisoner-Of-War of the Germans, 1915 Eastern Front: An English Doctor With A Russian Mobile Hospital Unit, Galicia, 2 June 1915 Gallipoli: Burying the Dead, June 1915 Marching Song of the British Army, 1915 Western Front: A Love Letter Home, 3 July 1915 Prostitution, BéThune, France, Summer 1915 Zeppelin Raid on London, Summer 1915 Western Front: Factoring the Risk, Laventie Sector, July 1915 Gallipoli: Turkish Attack, 22–23 July 1915 An Anzac at Gallipoli, July–August 1915 Eastern Front: A Cavalryman is Wounded, August 1915 Eastern Front: the Soldier’s Lot, September 1915 London Bombed, 8 October 1915 Shooting Down A Zeppelin, Potters Bar, London, October 1915 Nurse Cavell Before Her Execution, Brussels, 11 October 1915 Serbia: the Great Retreat, October–December 1915 Shelled, Hebuterne Trenches, Western Front, 19 October 1915 Eastern Front: Winter Battle in the Carpathian Passes, Galicia, 17–25 November 1915 Gallipoli: the Allied Evacuation, 18–19 December 1915 Home Front Death of A Fiancé, Christmas 1915 Christmas at Mametz Wood, 25 December 1915 Verdun: German General Headquarters Decides to Attack, Christmas 1915

Part Three: 1916

Introduction Verdun: the Barrage, 21–22 February 1916 Verdun: Storming Fort Douaumont, 25 February 1916 Eastern Front: Emperor Nicholas Ii Demands Renewed Efforts from His Troops, March 1916 The Winter War, Italiy, 1916 Western Front: Executions at Dawn, 14 April–21 July 1916 Occupied France: Civilians Are Rounded Up for Forced Labour, Lille, 24 April 1916 U-202 Sinks A Steamer, April 1916 “Stick Him Between the Eyes . . .”: How to Use A Bayonet, 25 April 1916 Ireland, the Easter Rising: the Commander’s Proclamation, 28 April 1916 Mesopotamia: the Death March of the Prisoners of Kut, May 1916 Trench Life: Sniping, Western Front, 1916 Western Front: Night Raid, Somme Sector, 25 May 1916 Trench Life: Lice, Western Front, 1916 Jutland: “A” Turrett, Hms Collingwood, May–1 June 1916 Jutland: the Queen Mary is Blown Up, 31 May 1916 Jutland: Aboard the Derfflinger, 31 May 1916 Jutland: Night Fight, 31 May–1 June 1916 Verdun: the Fall of Fort Vaux, 1–7 June 1916 Verdun: Lieutenant Henri Desagneaux in Action, 10 June–5 July 1916 Home Front: Death of A Brother, 15 June 1916 The Somme: Over the Top With the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 7.30 A.M., 1 July 1916 The Assault, 1916 The Somme: Day One – Through German Eyes, 1 July 1916 The Somme: at 21St Casualty Clearing Station, 1–3 July 1916 One Man’s War: A Month in the Life of An Australian Signaller, Western Front, July 1916 The Somme: Walks Among the Dead, 4–17 July 1916 Western Front: Song of the Australian Army, July 1916 A Novelist is Excused Military Service, England, July 1916 Reported Dead, the Somme, 22 July 1916 Bombing the Russian Lines, July–August 1916 The Somme: A German Soldier Writes Home, 14 August 1916 Provoce, Eastern Front: A German Soldier Dreams of Home, 28 August 1916 Western Front: the First Tanks in Action, the Somme, 15 September 1916 Western Front: A Blighty One, High Wood, 15 September 1916 The Red Baron Claims His First Kill, Western Front, 17 September 1916 The Somme: the British Secretary of State for War Surveys the Battlefield, 18–19 September 1916 “Like A Ruined Star Falling Slowly to Earth”: the End of Zeppelin L31, London, 1 October 1916 Rumania: the Mountain War, October 1916 “City of Beautiful Nonsense”: A British Journalist at General Headquarters, France, 1916 Ghq: A Defence, 1916 Russia: A Demonstration Against the Allies, 31 October 1916 Lloyd George Becomes Prime Minister, London, 5–6 December 1916 The Poor Bloody Infantry: An Officer’s View, Western Front, 14 December 1916 “The Dregs of England”: Life in the Labour Corps, 1916–17 Germany: New Year’s Message to the Army And Navy, 31 December 1916

Part Four: 1917

Introduction Western Front: A Poet Writes Home, 4 January 1917 An Australian on Leave in London, 27 January 1917 Observations of A Censor, France, 4 February 1917 Heimat Front: the Food Crisis, Leipzig, Germany, 4 February 1917 The Laconia is Torpedoed, North Atlantic, 25 February 1917 Revolution in Russia: Street Fighting in Petrograd, 12 March 1917 Home Front: Parliament Approves Women’s Suffrage, Britain, 28 March 1917 President Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War, Washington Dc, 2 April 1917 Western Front: Last Letter to A Son, France, 1 P.M. 2 April 1917 All Quiet on the Eastern Front: Pacifism in the Russian Lines, Spring 1917 The Battle of Arras: the View from the Air, 9 April 1917 Mud And Blood: the Floundering of the Nivelle Offensive, 16 April 1917 Birds in the Trenches, 1917 Western Front: A Tank Charge, Bullecourt, April 1917 “Tube 2, Fire!”: U-19 Attacks A Convoy, North Atlantic, 9 May 1917 Big Bang: the Blowing of the Mines at Messines, 3.10 A.M., 7 June 1917 Messines: Gassed, 7 June 1917 Cheers, Roses, Tears: Paris Welcomes General Pershing, 13 June 1917 Arabia: Guerrilla Attack on A Turkish Outpost, 2 July 1917 Gotha Aeroplanes Bomb London, 7 July 1917 “We Don’T Get Much Money, But We Do See Life”: Letters of An Airman, 24 July–20 October 1917 Passchendaele: the Advance of the Lancashire Fusiliers, 31 July 1917 Bombs on Southend: the Recollections of An Eleven-Year-Old, 12 August 1917 As Zero Hour Approaches: the Thoughts And Fears of An Infantryman, Passchendaele, 15 August 1917 Salonika: the Great Fire, 18 August 1917 Trench Life: A Day in the Life of An Officer, Western Front, 3 September 1917 The Last Letter of A Naval Mutineer, Berlin, 11 September 1917 Arabia: Blowing Up A Train on the Hejaz Railway, 19 September 1917 Death of An Ace: the Shooting Down of Werner Voss, Western Front, 23 September 1917 Mata Hari is Executed, France, 18 October 1917 Caporetto: Rommel Behind the Italian Lines, 25 October 1917 “So Terrible A Purgatory”: Scenes from Passchendaele, 2–6 November 1917 Russia in Revolution: the Bolsheviks Seize Power, 6–7 November 1917 Russia in Revolution: the Storming of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, November 1917 Clemenceau is Called to Be Premier, Paris, 15 November 1917 A Portrait of Clemenceau, November 1917 Tanks at Cambrai, Western Front, 19 November 1917 Tanks: the View of A Demoralized Enemy, November 1917 Cambrai: A Cavalry Charge, 20 November 1917 Palestine: the Fall of Jerusalem, 11 December 1917 Trench Life: Christmas at Passchendaele, December 1917 East Africa: the Bitter Guerrilla War of Von Lettow-Vorbeck, Winter 1917

Part Five: 1918

Introduction Storm of Steel: Facing the Michael Offensive, 22 March 1918 The Michael Offensive: Taken Prisoner, La Frere, 22 March 1918 Trench Life: Shell Shock, 1918 “Big Berthas” Fire on Paris, 23 March 1918 Western Front: the Mood of the Tommies, April 1918 The Battle of Lys: the Portuguese Are Driven Back, 9 April 1918 “With Our Backs to the Wall . . .”: Haig Asks the Bef to Fight to the Last Man, 11 April 1918 Raid on Zeebrugge, Belgium, 22–23 April 1918 Zeebrugge: the View from Hms Vindictive, 22–23 April 1918 Richthofen: the End, Western Front, 23 April 1918 Richthofen: A German Soldier Mourns A Hero, 24 April 1918 Western Front: Tank Vs Tank, 24 Villiers-Bretonneux, 24 April 1918 A British Pacifist Writes from Prison, 3 June 1918 Russia in Revolution: Tsar Nicholas Ii And the Royal Family Are Shot, Ekaterinburg, 16 July 1918 Casualties of War: Scenes from A Military Hospital, France, July 1918 The Black Day of the German Army, 8 August 1918 August 8: the British Commander’s View, 8 August 1918 August 8: the View of the British Minister of Munitions, 8 August 1918 Allied Break-Out: Fighting British Tanks, 8 August 1918 The Sights And Smells of Death: Corpses on A Battlefield, Western Front, August 1918 One Man’s War: Corporal Elmer Sherwood on the Western Front, 9 September–8 November 1918 American Soldiers: Letters Home, Western Front, September 1918 St Mihiel: the Americans Go It Alone, 12–13 September 1918 The Road to Damascus: A Turkish Column is Massacred, 24 September 1918 Serbia: the Allies Enter Uskub, 29 September 1918 Allied Break-Out: Lieutenant G. Harvard Thomas Wins the Mc, St Quentin Canal, 30 September–6 October 1918 Lawrence of Arabia Enters Damascus, 1 October 1918 Dogfights, Ambushes And Peace: Rickenbacker on the Western Front, October–November 1918 Heimat Front: Revolution in Munich, 7 November 1918 The Germans Request An Armistice, Forest of CompièGne, France, 9 November 1918 Armistice, 11 A.M., 11 November 1918

Part Six: 1919

Features of the War, 8 April 1919 The Signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919

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