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Authors: G. J. Meyer
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A world undone: the story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
Contents
Chapter 1 June 28: The Black Hand Descends
Chapter 3 Setting Fire to Europe
Chapter 4 July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies
Chapter 5 July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor
Chapter 6 Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark
August–December 1914:
Racing to Deadlock
Background: The French Commanders
Chapter 11 Back from the Marne
Background: The British Commanders
Chapter 13 The Search for Elsewhere
Background: The Machinery of Death
Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells
Chapter 18 Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and…
Chapter 19 Verdun: Preparation
Background: Old Wounds Unhealed
Chapter 21 Verdun Metastasizes
Background: Airships and Landships
Background: The Jews of Germany
Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top
Chapter 25 Turnips and Submarines
Background: Consuming the Future
Chapter 26 A New Defense, and a New Offensive
Chapter 27 Revolution and Intervention
Chapter 28 The Nivelle Offensive
Background: The War and Poetry
Chapter 32 Entangling Misalliances
Background: Lawrence of Arabia
Chapter 34 An Impossibly Complex Game
Chapter 35 The Black Day of the German Army
Background: The Gardeners of Salonika
Chapter 36 The Sign of the Defeated
Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations
Dedicated to the memory of my parents,
Cornelia E. and Justin G. Meyer
List of Maps
The War in the West
Front endpaper
The War in the East
Back endpaper
Nivelle Offensives of May 1917
List of Illustrations
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife
(NA)
Franz Ferdinand and family
(WW)
Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pasic
(CPE)
Hungarian Prime Minister Istvan Tisza
(CPE)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov
(CPE)
German Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow
(CPE)
French President Raymond Poincaré
(WW)
British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey
(CPE)
General Alexander von Kluck
(GW)
Field Marshal Sir John French
(WW)
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg
(CPE)
Vice Admiral Sackville Carden
(GW)
Rear Admiral John De Robeck
(CPE)
Italian Prime Minister Antonio Salandra
(CPE)
Lieutenant General Horace Smith-Dorrien
(CPE)
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford
(GW)
General Noël De Castelnau
(CPE)
Generals Ferdinand Foch and Henri-Philippe Pétain
(WW)
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
(GW)
British troops on Western Front
(NA)