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The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

by G. J. Meyer (Author) (edit contributors)

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  1. Bill V

    Bill V edited the table of contents of A World Undone Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

    • List of Maps
      List of Illustrations
      Chronology
      Major Characters
      Introduction

      PART ONE
      July 1914: Into the Abyss

      Chapter 1 June 28: The Black hand Descends
      Background: The Serbs
      Chapter 2: Never Again
      Background: The Hapsburgs
      Chapter 3: Setting Fire to Europe
      Background: The Hohenzollerns
      Chapter 4: July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies
      Background: The Romanovs
      Chapter 5: July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor
      Background: The Ottoman Turks
      Chapter 6: Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark

      PART TWO
      August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock

      Chapter 7: The Iron Dice Roll
      Background: Paris in 1914
      Chapter 8: First Blood
      Background: London in 1914
      Chapter 9: A Perfect Balance
      Background: The Junkers
      Chapter 10: To the Marne
      Background: The French Commanders
      Chapter 11: Back from the Marne
      Background: The British Commanders
      Chapter 12: Flanders Fields

      PART THREE


      1915: A Zero-Sum Game

      Chapter 13: The Search for Elsewhere
      Background: The Machinery of Death
      Chapter 14: The Dardanelles
      Background: The Sea War
      Chapter 15: Ypres Again
      Background: Troglodytes
      Chapter 16: Gallipoli
      Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells
      Chapter 17: The Ground Shifts
      Background: Genocide
      Chapter 18: Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and …

      PART FOUR
      1916: Bleeding to Death

      Chapter 19: Verdun: Preparation: Preparation
      Background: Old Wounds Unhealed
      Chapter 20: Verdun: Execution
      Background: The Living Dead
      Chapter 21: Verdun Metastasizes
      Background: Airships and Landships
      Chapter 22: Maelstrom
      Background: The Jews of Germany
      Chapter 23 The Somme
      Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top
      Chapter 24: Exhaustion

      PART FIVE
      1917: Things Fall Apart

      Chapter 25: Turnips and Submarines
      Background: Consuming the Future
      Chapter 26: A New Defense, and a New Offensive
      Background: Hearts and Minds
      Chapter 27: Revolution and Intervention
      Background: The Cossacks
      Chapter 28: The Nivelle Offensive
      Background: The War and Poetry
      Chapter 29: Wars Without Guns
      Background: Enter the Tiger
      Chapter 30: Passchendaele

      PART SIX
      1918: Last Throw of the Dice

      Chapter 31: Going for Broke
      Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II
      Chapter 32: Entangling Misalliances
      Background: Lawrence of Arabia
      Chapter 33: Michael
      Background: Ludendorff
      Chapter 34: An Impossibly Complex Game
      Background: The Women
      Chapter 35: The Black Day of the German Army
      Background: The Gardeners of Salonika
      Chapter 36: The Sign of the Defeated

      Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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  2. Bill V

    Bill V edited the table of contents of A World Undone Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

    • List of Maps
      List of Illustrations
      Chronology
      Major Characters
      Introduction

      PART ONE
      July 1914: Into the Abyss

      Chapter 1 June 28: The Black hand Descends
      Background: The Serbs
      Chapter 2: Never Again
      Background: The Hapsburgs
      Chapter 3: Setting Fire to Europe
      Background: The Hohenzollerns
      Chapter 4: July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies
      Background: The Romanovs
      Chapter 5: July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor
      Background: The Ottoman Turks
      Chapter 6: Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark

      PART TWO
      August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock

      Chapter 7: The Iron Dice Roll
      Background: Paris in 1914
      Chapter 8: First Blood
      Background: London in 1914
      Chapter 9: A Perfect Balance
      Background: The Junkers
      Chapter 10: To the Marne
      Background: The French Commanders
      Chapter 11: Back from the Marne
      Background: The British Commanders
      Chapter 12: Flanders Fields


      PART THREE

      1915: A Zero-Sum Game
      Chapter 13: The Search for Elsewhere
      Background: The Machinery of Death
      Chapter 14: The Dardanelles
      Background: The Sea War
      Chapter 15: Ypres Again
      Background: Troglodytes
      Chapter 16: Gallipoli
      Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells
      Chapter 17: The Ground Shifts
      Background: Genocide
      Chapter 18: Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and …


      PART FOUR
      1916: Bleeding to Death

      Chapter 19: Verdun: Preparation: Preparation
      Background: Old Wounds Unhealed
      Chapter 20: Verdun: Execution
      Background: The Living Dead
      Chapter 21: Verdun Metastasizes
      Background: Airships and Landships
      Chapter 22: Maelstrom
      Background: The Jews of Germany
      Chapter 23 The Somme
      Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top
      Chapter 24: Exhaustion


      PART FIVE
      1917: Things Fall Apart

      Chapter 25: Turnips and Submarines
      Background: Consuming the Future
      Chapter 26: A New Defense, and a New Offensive
      Background: Hearts and Minds
      Chapter 27: Revolution and Intervention
      Background: The Cossacks
      Chapter 28: The Nivelle Offensive
      Background: The War and Poetry
      Chapter 29: Wars Without Guns
      Background: Enter the Tiger
      Chapter 30: Passchendaele

      PART SIX
      1918: Last Throw of the Dice

      Chapter 31: Going for Broke
      Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II
      Chapter 32: Entangling Misalliances
      Background: Lawrence of Arabia
      Chapter 33: Michael
      Background: Ludendorff
      Chapter 34: An Impossibly Complex Game
      Background: The Women
      Chapter 35: The Black Day of the German Army
      Background: The Gardeners of Salonika
      Chapter 36: The Sign of the Defeated


      Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

    ( see Bill V’s edits | report abuse )
  3. Bill V

    Bill V edited the table of contents of A World Undone Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

    • List of Maps
      List of Illustrations
      Chronology
      Major Characters
      Introduction

      PART ONE
      July 1914: Into the Abyss

      Chapter 1 June 28: The Black hand Descends
      Background: The Serbs
      Chapter 2: Never Again
      Background: The Hapsburgs
      Chapter 3: Setting Fire to Europe
      Background: The Hohenzollerns
      Chapter 4: July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies
      Background: The Romanovs
      Chapter 5: July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor
      Background: The Ottoman Turks
      Chapter 6: Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark


      PART TWO


      August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock

      Chapter 7: The Iron Dice Roll
      Background: Paris in 1914
      Chapter 8: First Blood
      Background: London in 1914
      Chapter 9: A Perfect Balance
      Background: The Junkers
      Chapter 10: To the Marne
      Background: The French Commanders
      Chapter 11: Back from the Marne
      Background: The British Commanders
      Chapter 12: Flanders Fields


      PART THREE

      1915: A Zero-Sum Game
      Chapter 13: The Search for Elsewhere
      Background: The Machinery of Death
      Chapter 14: The Dardanelles
      Background: The Sea War
      Chapter 15: Ypres Again
      Background: Troglodytes
      Chapter 16: Gallipoli
      Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells
      Chapter 17: The Ground Shifts
      Background: Genocide
      Chapter 18: Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and …


      PART FOUR
      1916: Bleeding to Death

      Chapter 19: Verdun: Preparation: Preparation
      Background: Old Wounds Unhealed
      Chapter 20: Verdun: Execution
      Background: The Living Dead
      Chapter 21: Verdun Metastasizes
      Background: Airships and Landships
      Chapter 22: Maelstrom
      Background: The Jews of Germany
      Chapter 23 The Somme
      Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top
      Chapter 24: Exhaustion


      PART FIVE
      1917: Things Fall Apart

      Chapter 25: Turnips and Submarines
      Background: Consuming the Future
      Chapter 26: A New Defense, and a New Offensive
      Background: Hearts and Minds
      Chapter 27: Revolution and Intervention
      Background: The Cossacks
      Chapter 28: The Nivelle Offensive
      Background: The War and Poetry
      Chapter 29: Wars Without Guns
      Background: Enter the Tiger
      Chapter 30: Passchendaele

      PART SIX
      1918: Last Throw of the Dice

      Chapter 31: Going for Broke
      Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II
      Chapter 32: Entangling Misalliances
      Background: Lawrence of Arabia
      Chapter 33: Michael
      Background: Ludendorff
      Chapter 34: An Impossibly Complex Game
      Background: The Women
      Chapter 35: The Black Day of the German Army
      Background: The Gardeners of Salonika
      Chapter 36: The Sign of the Defeated


      Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

    ( see Bill V’s edits | report abuse )
  4. Bill V

    Bill V edited the table of contents of A World Undone Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

    • List of Maps
      List of Illustrations
      Chronology
      Major Characters
      Introduction


      PART ONE


      July 1914: Into the Abyss

      Chapter 1 June 28: The Black hand Descends
      Background: The Serbs
      Chapter 2: Never Again
      Background: The Hapsburgs
      Chapter 3: Setting Fire to Europe
      Background: The Hohenzollerns
      Chapter 4: July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies
      Background: The Romanovs
      Chapter 5: July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor
      Background: The Ottoman Turks
      Chapter 6: Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark


      PART TWO

      August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock

      Chapter 7: The Iron Dice Roll
      Background: Paris in 1914
      Chapter 8: First Blood
      Background: London in 1914
      Chapter 9: A Perfect Balance
      Background: The Junkers
      Chapter 10: To the Marne
      Background: The French Commanders
      Chapter 11: Back from the Marne
      Background: The British Commanders
      Chapter 12: Flanders Fields


      PART THREE

      1915: A Zero-Sum Game
      Chapter 13: The Search for Elsewhere
      Background: The Machinery of Death
      Chapter 14: The Dardanelles
      Background: The Sea War
      Chapter 15: Ypres Again
      Background: Troglodytes
      Chapter 16: Gallipoli
      Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells
      Chapter 17: The Ground Shifts
      Background: Genocide
      Chapter 18: Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and …


      PART FOUR
      1916: Bleeding to Death

      Chapter 19: Verdun: Preparation: Preparation
      Background: Old Wounds Unhealed
      Chapter 20: Verdun: Execution
      Background: The Living Dead
      Chapter 21: Verdun Metastasizes
      Background: Airships and Landships
      Chapter 22: Maelstrom
      Background: The Jews of Germany
      Chapter 23 The Somme
      Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top
      Chapter 24: Exhaustion


      PART FIVE
      1917: Things Fall Apart

      Chapter 25: Turnips and Submarines
      Background: Consuming the Future
      Chapter 26: A New Defense, and a New Offensive
      Background: Hearts and Minds
      Chapter 27: Revolution and Intervention
      Background: The Cossacks
      Chapter 28: The Nivelle Offensive
      Background: The War and Poetry
      Chapter 29: Wars Without Guns
      Background: Enter the Tiger
      Chapter 30: Passchendaele

      PART SIX
      1918: Last Throw of the Dice

      Chapter 31: Going for Broke
      Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II
      Chapter 32: Entangling Misalliances
      Background: Lawrence of Arabia
      Chapter 33: Michael
      Background: Ludendorff
      Chapter 34: An Impossibly Complex Game
      Background: The Women
      Chapter 35: The Black Day of the German Army
      Background: The Gardeners of Salonika
      Chapter 36: The Sign of the Defeated


      Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

    ( see Bill V’s edits | report abuse )
  5. Bill V

    Bill V edited the table of contents of A World Undone Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

    • List of Maps
      List of Illustrations
      Chronology
      Major Characters
      Introduction


      PART ONE

      July 1914: Into the Abyss

      Chapter 1 June 28: The Black hand Descends
      Background: The Serbs
      Chapter 2: Never Again
      Background: The Hapsburgs
      Chapter 3: Setting Fire to Europe
      Background: The Hohenzollerns
      Chapter 4: July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies
      Background: The Romanovs
      Chapter 5: July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor
      Background: The Ottoman Turks
      Chapter 6: Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark


      PART TWO

      August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock

      Chapter 7: The Iron Dice Roll
      Background: Paris in 1914
      Chapter 8: First Blood
      Background: London in 1914
      Chapter 9: A Perfect Balance
      Background: The Junkers
      Chapter 10: To the Marne
      Background: The French Commanders
      Chapter 11: Back from the Marne
      Background: The British Commanders
      Chapter 12: Flanders Fields


      PART THREE

      1915: A Zero-Sum Game
      Chapter 13: The Search for Elsewhere
      Background: The Machinery of Death
      Chapter 14: The Dardanelles
      Background: The Sea War
      Chapter 15: Ypres Again
      Background: Troglodytes
      Chapter 16: Gallipoli
      Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells
      Chapter 17: The Ground Shifts
      Background: Genocide
      Chapter 18: Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and …


      PART FOUR
      1916: Bleeding to Death

      Chapter 19: Verdun: Preparation: Preparation
      Background: Old Wounds Unhealed
      Chapter 20: Verdun: Execution
      Background: The Living Dead
      Chapter 21: Verdun Metastasizes
      Background: Airships and Landships
      Chapter 22: Maelstrom
      Background: The Jews of Germany
      Chapter 23 The Somme
      Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top
      Chapter 24: Exhaustion


      PART FIVE
      1917: Things Fall Apart

      Chapter 25: Turnips and Submarines
      Background: Consuming the Future
      Chapter 26: A New Defense, and a New Offensive
      Background: Hearts and Minds
      Chapter 27: Revolution and Intervention
      Background: The Cossacks
      Chapter 28: The Nivelle Offensive
      Background: The War and Poetry
      Chapter 29: Wars Without Guns
      Background: Enter the Tiger
      Chapter 30: Passchendaele

      PART SIX
      1918: Last Throw of the Dice

      Chapter 31: Going for Broke
      Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II
      Chapter 32: Entangling Misalliances
      Background: Lawrence of Arabia
      Chapter 33: Michael
      Background: Ludendorff
      Chapter 34: An Impossibly Complex Game
      Background: The Women
      Chapter 35: The Black Day of the German Army
      Background: The Gardeners of Salonika
      Chapter 36: The Sign of the Defeated


      Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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