Part I. Hybris
The Road to War
'It can hardly go wrong now': The Schlieffen Plan and its Failure.
Tannenberg and the Rise of Hindenburg
The European Stalemate.
A Strategy of Muddling Through? The War in 1915
'An Unparalleled Act of Barbarism': The Naval Blockade, Submarine Warfare and the Battle for American Neutrality
'Potato-bread Spirit': The German Home Front in 1914-16
Squaring the Circle: Falkenhayn and Verdun 1916
Summer 1916: The Allied Attack on all Fronts and its Failure
Part II. Climax: At the apex of war
'Only a Miracle can Save us Now': Germany and the War in the autumn of 1916
Action Stations, Panic Stations: The Radicalisation of Germany's Strategy under the Third OHL
'A Stroke of Genius': Tentative Offers of Peace in December 1916
The misjudged stand-off: Unrestricted submarine warfare and the USA's entry into the war.
Part III. Nemesis: The defeat of the Central Powers and the destruction of the European Order
Military Developments in the First Half of 1917
The First Russian Revolution and the Opportunity for a Peace Agreement with the Russian Democracy
'War Psychosis?' The Reichstag's Peace Offer and Bethmann Hollweg's Demission
'The Unmasking of the Central Powers?' Victory and Peace in the East
'Glorious, but hopeless': Germany's Position at the Turn of the Year 1917/18
'Ludendorff's Hammer': The Western Offensive of 1918
'Now the War was Lost': The Military Collapse of the Central Powers
'Savage in Victory, Contemptuous in Defeat': Germany's Route out of the War The Final Reckoning: A Terrible Debt that Must be Paid.