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The First World War : a complete history

Narrative of the war which left fourteen million dead and changed the political, social, and cultural landscape of Europe
Print Book, English, 1996, ©1994
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Henry Holt, New York, 1996, ©1994
xxiv, 615 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780805047349, 9780805076172, 0805047344, 0805076174
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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."
"An Owl book."