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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of maps
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Prelude to war
2. ‘Wild with joy’
3. The opening struggle
4. From Mons to the Marne
5. Digging in: the start of trench warfare
6. Towards the first Christmas: ‘mud and slime and vermin’
7. Stalemate and the search for breakthroughs
8. The Gallipoli landings
9. The Entente in danger
10. The Central Powers in the ascendant
11. The continuing failure of the Entente
12. ‘This war will end at Verdun’
13. ‘Europe is mad. The world is mad.’
14. The Battle of the Somme: ‘It is going to be a bloody holocaust’
15. War on every front
16. The intensification of the war
17. War, desertion, mutiny
18. Stalemate in the west, turmoil in the east
19. Battle at Passchendaele; Revolution in Russia
20. The terms of war and peace
21. The Central Powers on the verge of triumph
22. Germany’s last great onslaught
23. ‘The battle, the battle, nothing else counts’
24. The Allied counter-attack
25. The turn of the tide
26. The collapse of the Central Powers
27. The final armistice
28. Peacemaking and remembrance
29. ‘… to the memory of that great company’
Bibliography
Maps
Index
Endnotes
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