List of Tables List of Graphs PART I: POLITICAL The Belligerents Offensive Military Plans The German September Programme of War Aims Allied War Aims in Europe Clearing the Seas The Western Front - An Overview The Peripheral Fronts - An Overview The Great War in Africa & Asia The Allied Blockade of Germany Plans for Partition of the Ottoman Empire Italian Entry into the War France Under Strain, 1917 The German Submarine Campaign, 1917-18 The Strategic Bombing of England The Collapse of Russia, 1917 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 1918 Empire at War The Collapse of Germany, Oct.-Nov. 1918 Peace in the West - The Versailles Settlement Peace in the East - Peace Settlement with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20 The Costs of the War, 1914-19 PART II: MILITARY The Battle of the Frontiers and the Retreat The Russian Advance in East Prussia The Marne and the Aisne Operations on the Northern Flank, 1914-15 The Attempts to Break the Western Front, 1915 2nd Ypres - The Use of Gas in War The Dardanelles Campaign The German Conquest of Poland The Italians on the Isonzo Salonika Caucasus and Mesopotamia Verdun 1916 The Somme 1 - The Plan and First Day The Somme 2 - The Battle of Attrition The Battle of Jutland The War Between Austria-Hungary and Russia The Defeat of Rumania/War in the Balkans (Serbia) The Nivelle Offensive The Passchedaele Campaign The Arab Revolt, 1916-18 Allenby's Offensive in Palestine Malmaison - The Bite and Hold Battle Cambrai - The Use of the Tank Caporetto - The Collapse of the Italian Army (MH) Table: Italian Losses The German Spring Offensive American Operation on the Western Front Foch's Advance to Victory Breaking the Hindenburg Line, September 1918 Index