The great illusion, 1910 / Sir Norman Angell
Germany and the next war / General Friedrich von Bernhardi
The "Willy-Nicky" telegrams / Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
The circus rider of Europe / Dennis Showalter
The army and the nationalist revival / Douglas Porch
The good soldier Schweik / Jaroslav Hašek
Her privates we / Frederick Manning
A soldier's notebook / Alexei Brusilov
Officer-man relations: the other ranks' perspective / G. D. Sheffield
"War enthusiasm": volunteers, departing soldiers, and victory celebrations / Jeffrey Verhey
Foch's general counteroffensive, part I: 26 September to 23 October, 1918 / David Trask


The destruction of Louvain / Leon van der Essen
The historic first of July / Philip Gibbs
Between mutiny and obedience / Leonard V. Smith
The live and let live system / Tony Ashworth
Letters from a lost generation / Vera Brittain
An English wife in Berlin / Evelyn Blücher
Home fires burning / Belinda J. Davis
The politics of race / Jennifer D. Keene
The fourteen points / President Woodrow Wilson
Views on a prospective armistice / Ferdinand Foch and John Pershing
The military collapse of the German Empire / Wilhelm Deist
Diggers and doughboys: Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918 / Dale Blair
Peacemaking, 1919 / Harold Nicolson
British diplomacy: the Hussein-McMahon letters / Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Cairo, to Hussein Ibn Ali, the Sherif of Mecca
A peace to end all peace / David Fromkin
The kings depart / Richard Watt.