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Index
Cover
About the Book
Contents
Title Page
Epigraph
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
Preface
1 The Lamps Begin to Flicker
2 Allies of the Old Century
3 Lessons
4 The Contemptible Little Army
5 Plans
6 Calculations
7 The Sea and the Dry Land
8 The Bones of Grenadiers
9 A Deadly Quadrille
10 The Great Question Answered
11 The Call to Arms
12 An Army with a Country Attached to It
13 Fear God. Honour the King.
14 The First Dusting
15 Mons – the Stubborn Resistance
16 Shrapnel Monday
17 ‘Very well, gentlemen, we will fight’
18 ‘A day will be written in story’
19 ‘C’est la France qui vous supplie’
20 ‘En avant!’
21 The Race to the Sea; and What Might Have Been
Postscript: Desperate Appeals against the Decision of Fate
Picture Section
Appendix: The British Expeditionary Force, August 1914 – Order of Battle
Picture Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author
Also by Allan Mallinson
Copyright
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