The Great War*** OVER 210,000 WEST POINT MILITARY HISTORY SERIES SETS IN PRINT *** World War I marked the end of the old military order and the beginning of the era of mechanized warfare. This is a thorough examination of the campaigns of the "war to end all wars." It analyzes the development of military theory and practice from the prewar period of Bismark's Prussia to the creation of the League of Nations. |
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
French Mobilization Posters | 7 |
None Knew and Few Foresaw What Modern War Would | 16 |
The Great Wheel | 21 |
The Liège Fortification System | 22 |
The Battle of the Sambre August 2123 1914 | 28 |
War in the East 19141915 | 41 |
Chapter 3 | 42 |
War in the East 19161918 | 101 |
Czar Nicholas and His Generals Discuss Russian Strategy | 103 |
German Artillery Moves Up to Support the Assault on Riga | 110 |
The Search for Mobility on the Western Front 1917 | 115 |
Chapter 7 | 116 |
The Ludendorff Peace Offensive 1918 | 131 |
General Ferdinand Foch French Chief of Staff | 138 |
United States Naval Escorts Destroyers Lay Down | 146 |
Field Marshal Conrad von Hotzendorf | 49 |
King Peter of Serbia Observes His Army in Action Against | 57 |
Deadlock and Attrition on the Western Front 19141916 | 61 |
A Stern Lord Kitchener Enjoins His Countrymen to Enlist | 65 |
Joffre and Haig Discuss a Problem with a Skeptical British | 69 |
Peripheral Operations | 77 |
Chapter 5 | 78 |
British Troops Are Towed to Cape Helles | 85 |
Turkish Trenches at Sannaiyat | 92 |
Chapter 6 | 100 |
A Mammoth French Trench Mortar Is Readied for an Attack | 154 |
The St Mihiel Offensive September 1215 1918 | 161 |
The Unfinished War | 167 |
vii | 178 |
Epilogue | 179 |
B Selected Orders and Directives | 189 |
Glossary | 213 |
Index | 219 |
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