The First World War : a complete history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Henry Holt,
1996, c1994.
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| Edition: | 1st Owl books ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude to war
- "Wild with joy"
- The opening struggle
- From Mons to the Marne
- Digging in : the start of trench warfare
- Towards the first Christmas : "mud and slime and vermin"
- Stalemate and the search for breakthroughs
- The Gallipoli landings
- The Entente in danger
- The Central Powers in the ascendant
- The continuing failure of the Entente
- "This war will end at Verdun"
- "Europe is mad, the world is mad"
- The Battle of the Somme : 'It is going to be a bloody holocaust"
- War on every front
- The Intensification of the war
- War, desertion, mutiny
- Stalemate in the west, turmoil in the east
- Battle at Passchendaele ; Revolution in Russia
- The terms of war and peace
- The Central Powers on the verge of triumph
- Germany's last great onslaught
- "The battle, the battle, nothing else counts"
- The Allied counter-attack
- The turn of the tide
- The collapse of the Central Powers
- The final armistice
- Peacemaking and remembrance
- "...to the memory of that great company."