The World War I book

The World War I book

Book - 2024

Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold images, The World War I Book explores the historical background of the war, its causes, all of the key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its aftermath. Using the original, graphic-led approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key events during and surrounding the conflict - from the growing tensions between Europe's major powers to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the German invasion of Belgium, the endless slaughter in the trenches, the American entry into the war, the Russian Revolution, the Armistice, and the creation of the League of Nations.

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Subjects
World War, 1914-1918.
Informational works
Illustrated works
Informational works.
Genres
Informational works
Illustrated works
Published
New York, NY : DK Publishing 2024.
Language
English
Other Authors
David L. Anderson, 1946- (contributor), Joanne Bourne, Tim Cooke, 1961-, Helen Douglas-Cooper, Jacob Field, Adrian Gilbert, Mark Collins Jenkins, Andrew Kerr-Jarrett, Michael Kerrigan, 1959-, Jenny Macleod, Susan Paul Pattie, Donald Sommerville, 1957-, Joseph R. Yogerst
Edition
First American edition
Physical Description
336 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9780744091977
  • Introduction
  • Prelude to Conflict 1870-1914
  • A secure and prosperous age
  • The situation in Europe
  • We demand a place for ourselves in the sun
  • The rise of Germany
  • There is no god any longer! There is no tsar!
  • Crisis in Russia
  • The powder keg of Europe
  • The Balkans
  • We have on our hands a sick man
  • The Ottoman Empire in decline
  • My map of Africa lies in Europe
  • Europe's colonies and empires
  • A nightmare of coalitions
  • The Alliance System
  • England indisputably rules the sea
  • The naval arms race
  • Attack is the best defense
  • Planning for war
  • Death to the tyrant!
  • The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
  • Was the treaty not a scrap of paper?
  • War is declared
  • Who's for the game?
  • Public opinion
  • The War Begins 1914
  • Murder, lust, and pillage
  • The invasion of Belgium
  • The price was a generation of Frenchmen
  • The Battle of the Frontiers
  • The lamps are going out all over Europe
  • The British arrive
  • Hopeless resignation to utter fatigue
  • The Great Retreat
  • All that men can do, our fellows will do
  • The First Battle of the Marne
  • The last ditch in Belgium
  • The race to the sea
  • The Massacre of the Innocents
  • The First Battle of Ypres
  • Hell is mud
  • Trenches take over
  • Flushing them out like animals
  • The Battle of Tannenberg
  • This monstrous front will devour us all
  • Austro-Hungarian failures
  • Days of see-saw battle
  • The battle for Poland
  • Let the victory be sacred
  • Ottoman Turkey enters the war
  • We don't want to die for nothing
  • The war in Africa
  • They have no grave but the cruel sea
  • The war at sea begins
  • A grace from heaven
  • The war in Asia and Oceania
  • The enemy has ears everywhere
  • The secret war
  • Deadlock 1915
  • Pile up the munitions!
  • Ramping up production
  • She never had been armed
  • The sinking of the Lusitania
  • All the world's a cage
  • Concentration camps
  • As under a green sea, I saw him drowning
  • The Second Battle of Ypres
  • The cavalry of the clouds
  • War in the air
  • A new and treacherous enemy
  • Italy enters the war
  • A name that will never die
  • The Gallipoli Campaign
  • The scenes I witness haunt me
  • The war in the Caucasus
  • Our armies come as liberators
  • The war in Mesopotamia
  • The greatest crime of the war
  • The Armenian Genocide
  • Impartial in thought as well as in action
  • The US and World War I
  • Buildings collapsed like houses of cards
  • The German bombing campaign begins
  • They melted away
  • Russia retreats
  • Alpine winds whistle their songs of death
  • The end of the Serbian campaign
  • Lions led by donkeys
  • The Artois-Loos Offensive
  • Total War 1916
  • Huge mechanical monsters
  • Tank warfare
  • Bleed France white
  • The Battle of Verdun
  • A terrible beauty is born
  • The Easter Rising
  • You have started a new chapter in world history
  • The Battle of Jutland
  • Our iron army will win a total victory
  • The Brusilov Offensive
  • We rebelled in order to please God
  • The Arab Revolt
  • It was a dance of hell
  • The Somme
  • Every misery borne at once
  • Romania goes to war
  • A silent dictatorship
  • Germany's war machine
  • The cities are hungry
  • Society under strain
  • Revolution and Exhaustion 1917
  • The emperor is blind
  • The February Revolution
  • The world must be made safe for democracy
  • The US enters the war
  • I want you for the US army
  • Putting the US on a war footing
  • Every man and every dollar
  • Replacing the fallen
  • The best and sharpest weapon
  • The U-boats on the attack
  • I witnessed the birth of a nation
  • The Battle of Arras
  • Down with the war!
  • The Nivelle Offensive
  • Today I would not wish to be Italian
  • The final battles of the Isonzo
  • The earth seemed to vomit fire
  • The Battle of Messines
  • I can't stop while there are lives to be saved
  • Treating the wounded
  • The broken thunder of the German death
  • The German bombing campaign continues
  • The steamroller that could not crack a nut
  • The Kerensky Offensive
  • The gardeners of Salonika
  • Greece and the Macedonian front
  • The din, the row, the swishing of the shells
  • Artillery
  • Horses, mules, men, everything dead
  • The Battle of Passchendaele
  • Trembling like a leaf
  • Shell shock
  • Hell was let loose
  • The Battle of Cambrai
  • Fight on and fly on
  • Tactical flying
  • Peace, land, and bread
  • The October Revolution
  • Our alliance, cemented in blood
  • Naval war in the Mediterranean
  • Grip the enemy by the throat
  • The war in East Africa
  • The soldiers of the last crusade
  • Jerusalem falls
  • Victory and Defeat 1918
  • Long live the mass strike!
  • The home front in 1918
  • A war of craters and potholes
  • Trench warfare transformed
  • We must sign at once. This beast springs quickly.
  • German victory in Eastern Europe
  • An unimaginable amount of guns
  • The Spring Offensive
  • Do you want to live forever?
  • The Battle of Belleau Wood
  • The strong and brave hearts of free men beat in your breast
  • The Second Battle of the Marne
  • We stand at the turning point of the war
  • The Battle of Amiens
  • The greatest army ever under the American flag
  • The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
  • Wholesale murder
  • The Meuse-Argonne Offensive
  • We must save Italy
  • The end of the war in Italy
  • A magnificent victory in the East
  • The Battle of Megiddo
  • The old and rotten, the monarchy, has collapsed
  • Mutiny and revolution in Germany
  • They stormed the battlements of death
  • Breaking the Hindenberg Line
  • There was no cheering, no singing
  • The Armistice
  • Death is not an adventure
  • War poetry and literature
  • A War to End All Wars? 1919-1923 and Beyond
  • It seems to be a plague
  • The Great Influenza
  • Survivors perched on a mountain of corpses
  • Shattered by war
  • We have come here as friends
  • A lasting peace?
  • A scandalous failure of justice
  • War-crimes trials
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war
  • Postwar conflicts
  • The State is absolute
  • The rise of fascism
  • In Flanders fields the poppies blow
  • Remembering the war
  • Index
  • Quote Attributions
  • Acknowledgments

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