Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Maps
Timeline of Major Events
Brief Biographies of Important Figures Mentioned in the Text
Introduction
One: Causes
Primary
1.1 The Great Illusion, 1910
1.2 Germany and the Next War
1.3 The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams
Secondary
1.4 The Circus Rider of Europe
1.5 The Army and the Nationalist Revival
Two: Soldiers
Primary
2.1 The Good Soldier Schweik
2.2 Her Privates We
2.3 A Soldier's Notebook
Secondary
2.4 Officer-Man Relations: The Other Ranks' Perspective
2.5 "War Enthusiasm": Volunteers, Departing Soldiers, and Victory Celebrations
2.6 Foch's General Counteroffensive, Part I: 26 September to 23 October 1918
Three: Armageddon
Primary
3.1 The Destruction of Louvain
3.2 The Historic First of July
Secondary
3.3 Between Mutiny and Obedience
3.4 The Live and Let Live System
Four: Home Fronts
Primary
4.1 Letters from a Lost Generation
4.2 An English Wife in Berlin
Secondary
4.3 Home Fires Burning
4.4 The Politics of Race
Five: The End of the War
Primary
5.1 The Fourteen Points
5.2 Views on a Prospective Armistice
Secondary
5.3 The Military Collapse of the German Empire
5.4 Diggers and Doughboys Australian and American Troop Interaction on the Western Front, 1918
Six: Peace
Primary
6.1 Peacemaking, 1919
6.2 British Diplomacy: The Hussein-McMahon Letters
Secondary
6.3 A Peace to End All Peace
6.4 The Kings Depart
Further Reading
Index
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