The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

For history buffs, students, and anyone interested in the 20th century, this book reveals why World War I began, explores the "guns of August," describes the horrors of trench warfare and the first uses of poison gas, and explains why the Americans were so slow to enter the war. From the eastern front to the west, from Gallipoli to the Marne, from the Lafayette Escadrillo to Lawrence fo Arabia, the book tells the whole story of "the war to end all wars."

Alan Axelrod is a renowned historian and business writer. He was the co author of the New York Times bestseller What Every American Should Know About American History as well as the BusinessWeek bestsellers Patton on Leadership and Elizabeth I, CEO. He has written extensively on the Civil War.

Part 1: The Lamps Go Out

1

(51)

The Great War

3

(14)

Family Affairs

17

(12)

Blueprints for a Bloodletting

29

(12)

The Black Hand

41

(10)

Part 2: Home Before the Leaves Fall

51

(86)

Battle of the Frontiers

53

(14)

The Marne: Massacre and Miracle

67

(12)

The Sun Sets in the East

79

(12)

A Suicide

91

(12)

Duel of Doomed Empires

103

(12)

The Sick Man and Serbia

115

(10)

A World War

125

(12)

Part 3: We Are the Dead

137

(72)

Deadlock

139

(16)

A New Year and No Hope

155

(10)

The Gallipoli Disaster

165

(12)

The Other Fronts, 1915

177

(10)

``They Shall Not Pass!''

187

(12)

Italy, the Eastern Front, and Elsewhere, 1916

199

(10)

Part 4: Troubled Seas and Fiery Skies

209

(28)

A Tale of Two Fleets

211

(12)

Winged Knights

223

(14)

Part 5: Doughboys

237

(106)

``He Kept Us Out of War''

239

(12)

Allies Imperiled

251

(16)

Over Here and Over There

267

(14)

The War Beyond the Trenches, 1917-1918

281

(14)

New Blood

295

(14)

Second Marne

309

(10)

A Million Men and More

319

(12)

Eleventh Hour, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Month

331

(12)

Part 6: Lost Generations

343

(42)

The Tragedy of Versailles

345

(12)

Disease, Disillusion, and All That Jazz

357

(28)

Appendixes

A Who Was Who in World War I

365

(6)

B Words of War

371

(10)

C Further Reading

381

(4)

Index

385

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

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