- List of Illustrations*
- Timeline of Major Events
- Important People
- Introduction: An Exchange of Telegrams
- 1. A Cruel Disillusion: The German Invasion and the Miracle of the Marne
- 2. Loosed Like Wild Beasts: The War in Eastern Europe
- 3. The Country of Death: Stalemate on the Western Front
- 4. Ordered to Die: Gallipoli and the Eastern Fronts
- 5. Gordian Knots: American Neutrality and the Wars for Empire
- 6. Bleeding France White: The Agony of Verdun
- 7. A War against Civilization: The Chantilly Offensives and the Somme
- 8. Driving Out the Devil: Collapse in the East
- 9. Salvation and Sacrifice: American Entry, Vimy Ridge, and the Chemin des Dames
- 10. A Few Miles of Liquid Mud: The Battle of Passchendaele
- 11. Not War as We Knew It: The U-Boat Menace and War in Africa
- 12. Jerry’s Turn: The Ludendorff Offensives
- 13. One Hundred Days to Victory: Amiens to the Meuse-Argonne
- Conclusion: An Armistice at Any Price
- Notes
- Primary Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- Maps:
- The western front, 1914
- The eastern front, 1914
- The western front, 1915
- The Gallipoli campaign, 1915
- The eastern front, 1915
- The Turkish front, 1915–1918
- The Italian front, 1915–1918
- The western front, 1916–1917
- The Ludendorff offensives, 1918
- Allied advances, 1918
- Figures:
- Germans head to the front, 1914
- Paris, 1914
- British officers, 1914
- Benjamin Foulois and instructor from Wright Aviation, 1910
- German soldiers in Belgium
- Edith Cavell poster
- Young French refugees
- French church serving as hospital
- E. R. Heaton
- French soldiers dig in near Reims
- German soldiers in East Prussia, 1914
- Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
- Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing Serbians
- Radomir Putnik
- “Save Serbia” poster
- Russian Cossacks in Lemberg, 1915
- Diagram of ideal trench system
- French Spad 11 aircraft
- Reconnaissance balloon
- Gas attack as seen from the air
- African soldiers in the French army
- Female munitions workers in a British factory
- Soldier with gas mask
- Bulgarian irregulars
- John Monash
- Mustafa Kemal
- Turkish prisoners, Gallipoli
- Australian soldiers in the snow, Gallipoli
- Armenian orphans leaving Turkey
- Germany’s “luxury fleet,” 1914
- John Jellicoe
- The sinking of the Blücher, 1915
- “Our Mutual Friend,” cartoon
- Crew of German U-boat
- Australian soldiers on camels, Libya
- Italian ski troops on the Isonzo front
- A remote outpost in the Julian Alps
- Flamethrower
- French prisoners escorted away from Verdun
- Schneider 155mm artillery piece
- The peaceful village of Vaux
- Airplane patrolling the sky
- Wounded soldiers at the Isonzo front
- Munitions factory
- Joffre, Haig, and Foch at the Somme
- British tank crushing barbed wire
- Graves registration booklet
- German, Bulgarian, Turkish soldiers in Romania
- Alexei Brusilov
- Tsar Nicholas II on horseback
- Bolshevik Red Guards
- Alexander Kerensky
- Leon Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk
- Soldiers moving artillery, Vimy Ridge, 1917
- Arthur Currie
- French attack, Champagne, 1917
- British anti-aircraft gunners
- Italian soldiers on the Isonzo front
- William Robertson and Ferdinand Foch
- Allied airfield under construction
- The Ypres salient, 1917
- German High Command
- Wounded German soldier, western front, 1917
- Artillery moved by rail
- Italian troops retreating, Caporetto, 1917
- German U-boat
- David Beatty
- American soldiers watching for U-boats
- British soldiers during the Easter Rising
- Boer commandos, 1914
- British soldiers escorting Germans out of Togoland, 1915
- German officers training local militia, New Guinea
- Ruins of Arras
- German tank, 1918
- Queant, on the Hindenburg Line
- John J. Pershing with Benjamin Foulois
- American light tanks advancing
- American troops with machine gun
- Horsepower on the front
- American troops with French artillery gun
- Americans and Australians at Le Hamel
- A bomber drops its payload
- St. Quentin, Hindenburg Line, 1918
- Aerial view of trenches, Meuse-Argonne front, 1918
- French peasants welcome their liberators
- Londoners celebrate the armistice, November 1918
- Lloyd George, Orlando, Clemenceau, and Wilson at Versailles
- Emir Faisal and T. E. Lawrence at the Paris Peace Conference
- Germans destroying airplane propellers after the war
- Maps:
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