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List of Maps | p. xiii |
List of Illustrations | p. xv |
Chronology | p. xvii |
Major Characters | p. xxvii |
Introduction | p. xxxiii |
July 1914: Into the Abyss | p. 1 |
June 28: The Black Hand Descends | p. 3 |
Background: The Serbs | |
Never Again | p. 18 |
Background: The Hapsburgs | |
Setting Fire to Europe | p. 32 |
Background: The Hohenzollerns | |
July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies | p. 51 |
Background: The Romanovs | |
July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor | p. 72 |
Background: The Ottoman Turks | |
Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark | p. 93 |
August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock | p. 103 |
The Iron Dice Roll | p. 105 |
Background: Paris in 1914 | |
First Blood | p. 124 |
Background: London in 1914 | |
A Perfect Balance | p. 155 |
Background: The Junkers | |
To the Marne | p. 184 |
Background: The French Commanders | |
Back from the Marne | p. 201 |
Background: The British Commanders | |
Flanders Fields | p. 220 |
1915: A Zero-Sum Game | p. 239 |
The Search for Elsewhere | p. 241 |
Background: The Machinery of Death | |
The Dardanelles | p. 265 |
Background: The Sea War | |
Ypres Again | p. 291 |
Background: Troglodytes | |
Gallipoli | p. 305 |
Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells | |
The Ground Shifts | p. 319 |
Background: Genocide | |
Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and... | p. 338 |
1916: Bleeding to Death | p. 359 |
Verdun: Preparation | p. 361 |
Background: Old Wounds Unhealed | |
Verdun: Execution | p. 380 |
Background: The Living Dead | |
Verdun Metastasizes | p. 398 |
Background: Airships and Landships | |
Maelstrom | p. 414 |
Background: The Jews of Germany | |
The Somme | p. 435 |
Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top | |
Exhaustion | p. 435 |
1917: Things Fall Apart | p. 471 |
Turnips and Submarines | p. 473 |
Background: Consuming the Future | |
A New Defense, and a New Offensive | p. 491 |
Background: Hearts and Minds | |
Revolution and Intervention | p. 506 |
Background: The Cossacks | |
The Nivelle Offensive | p. 527 |
Background: The War and Poetry | |
Wars Without Guns | p. 549 |
Background: Enter the Tiger | |
Passchendaele | p. 571 |
1918: Last Throw of the Dice | p. 589 |
Going for Broke | p. 591 |
Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II | |
Entangling Misalliances | p. 610 |
Background: Lawrence of Arabia | |
Michael | p. 626 |
Background: Ludendorff | |
An Impossibly Complex Game | p. 649 |
Background: The Women | |
The Black Day of the German Army | p. 671 |
Background: The Gardeners of Salonika | |
The Sign of the Defeated | p. 689 |
Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations | p. 705 |
Notes | p. 717 |
Bibliography | p. 753 |
Index | p. 764 |
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