Contents	5
	Introduction	6
	Chronology	8
	Background to war	10
	Warring sides	14
	Outbreak	19
	The fighting	21
	The invasion of Belgium	21
	Battle of the Frontiers	22
	The Battle of Mons	23
	Allied retreat	24
	The Marne Miracle	25
	Deadlock	27
	Race to the sea	28
	Antwerp falls	30
	Fighting on the Yser	31
	The first battle of Ypres	31
	The Winter of 1914–1915	32
	Neuve Chapelle	36
	The second battle of Ypres	38
	Artois and Flanders	41
	Allied plans for the autumn	42
	The second battle of Champagne	44
	Loos	45
	Haig takes command of the BEF	47
	Attrition in the ascendant	49
	Attack at Verdun	50
	Fort Douaumont is captured	51
	Spring and summer fighting at Verdun	53
	The French counterstroke	55
	Preparing for the Somme	56
	The bloody first day	60
	Summer on the Somme	61
	Enter the tank	65
	The reckoning	67
	Portrait of a soldier	72
	The world around war	74
	France	74
	Germany	74
	Britain	75
	Portrait of a civilian	77
	How the period ended	79
	Further reading	80
	Index	81
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