1. War Known and War Imagined. The Civilian View of War. The Professional View of War. War Plans. The Naval Race -- 2. 1914: OOPS! The Plans Fail. The Battles of the Frontiers. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) up to Mons. The End of the Schlieffen Plan. The Marne. First Ypres. Eastern Front: Tannenberg to Lemberg -- 3. Taking Stock. The Soldiers. The Politicians. Civilians and the Suspension of Partisan Politics. War Aims -- 4. The War in 1915: Badly Planned Disasters. Russian Poland, Second Ypres. The Trench System and the Code of the Front. Neuve Chapelle, Champagne, Arrois and Loos. Gallipoli -- 5. The Home Fronts. Britain: DORA and Conscription. Propaganda and Censorship. War Economics. German, War Aims and War Means: Submarines -- 6. 1916: Attrition and the Well-Planned Disasters. Jutland. Verdun. The Somme -- 7. Organizing for Victory. Ludendorff Takes Charge in Germany. Unlimited Submarine Warfare. Offering Peace. Lloyd George Knocks Out Peace.

The Russian Revolutions. The Fall of Bethmann Hollweg: July 1917 -- 8. Technology and Tactics. A Technological Solution? The Air War and Tanks. A Tactical Solution? Arras, Vimy and the Nivelle Offensive -- 9. 1917: 'Mere Unspeakable Suffering'. The Nivelle Offensive and the Mutiny: April to June, 1917. Third Ypres (Passchendaele) -- 10. The Bitter End: 1918. Ludendorff Rolls the Iron Dice in the West. The Spring Offensive: Winning the Way to Defeat. The Allies Counter-Attack. The Collapse of Ludendorff. Numbers. So what?