Machine derived contents note: PART ONE
July 1914: Into the Abyss 1
Chapter 1 June 28: The Black Hand Descends 3
Background: The Hapsburgs
Chapter 3 Setting Fire to Europe 28
Background: The Hohenzollerns
Chapter 4 July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies 44
Chapter 5 July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor 62
Background: The Ottoman Turks
Chapter 6 Saturday, August i: Leaping into the Dark 80
August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock 89
Chapter 7 The Iron Dice Roll 91
Background: Paris in 1914
Chapter 8 First Blood 108
Background: London in 1914
Chapter 9 A Perfect Balance 135
Chapter 10 To the Marne 161
Background: The French Commanders
Chapter 11 Back from the Marne 175
Background: The British Commanders
Chapter 12 Flanders Fields 191
1915: A Zero-Sum Game 207
Chapter 13 The Search for Elsewhere 209
Background: The Machinery of Death
Chapter 14 The Dardanelles 230
Chapter 15 Ypres Again 253
Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells
Chapter 17 The Ground Shifts 277
Chapter 18 Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and 292
1916: Bleeding to Death 309
Chapter 19 Verdun: Preparation 311
Background: Old Wounds Unhealed
Chapter 20 Verdun: Execution 328
Background: The Living Dead
Chapter 21 Verdun Metastasizes 344
Background: Airships and Landships
Background: The Jews of Germany
Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top
Chapter 24 Exhaustion 394
1917: Things Fall Apart 407
Chapter 25 Turnips and Submarines 409
Background: Consuming the Future
Chapter 26 A New Defense, and a New Offensive 424
Background: Hearts and Minds
Chapter 27 Revolution and Intervention 438
Chapter 28 The Nivelle Offensive 455
Background: The War and Poetry
Chapter 29 Wars Without Guns 474
Background: Enter the Tiger
Chapter 30 Passchendaele 493
1918: Last Throw of the Dice 509
Chapter 31 Going for Broke 511
Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II
Chapter 32 Entangling Misalliances 528
Background: Lawrence of Arabia
Chapter 34 An Impossibly Complex Game 561
Chapter 35 The Black Day of the German Army 581
Background: The Gardeners of Salonika
Chapter 36 The Sign of the Defeated 596
Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations 609.
