ABSTRACT

An up-to-date and concise account of WWI for teachers and students looking for a balanced introduction. It details both the military operations as well as the development of war aims, alliance diplomacy and the war on the home front.

chapter 1|16 pages

The background

chapter 2|11 pages

1914: the war of movement

chapter |5 pages

Deployment of the BEF

chapter |26 pages

First Battle of the Aisne

chapter 3|9 pages

1915: stalemate and trench warfare

chapter |31 pages

Third Battle of Artois

chapter 4|16 pages

1916: the cauldron

part |1 pages

Italian Front: Fifth Battle of the Isonzo

chapter 6|9 pages

th through Ninth Battles of the Isonzo

chapter 5|14 pages

1917: the turning point

chapter |16 pages

Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)

chapter 6|12 pages

1918: the end

chapter |5 pages

(Third Battle of the Aisne)

chapter |5 pages

Meuse-Argonne Offensive

chapter 7|10 pages

Other theatres of war

chapter |12 pages

Mesopotamia

chapter 8|16 pages

The home fronts

chapter 9|14 pages

The peace lost

chapter |20 pages

Notes

chapter |6 pages

Select bibliography

chapter |6 pages

Great Britain

part |2 pages

Other Fronts