The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I,9780028639024

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

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ISBN13: 9780028639024
ISBN10: 0028639022
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-12
Publisher(s): Alpha
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Summary

For history buffs, students, and anyone interested in the 20th century, this book reveals why World War I began, explores the "guns of August," describes the horrors of trench warfare and the first uses of poison gas, and explains why the Americans were so slow to enter the war. From the eastern front to the west, from Gallipoli to the Marne, from the Lafayette Escadrillo to Lawrence fo Arabia, the book tells the whole story of "the war to end all wars."

Author Biography

Alan Axelrod is a renowned historian and business writer. He was the co author of the New York Times bestseller What Every American Should Know About American History as well as the BusinessWeek bestsellers Patton on Leadership and Elizabeth I, CEO. He has written extensively on the Civil War.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Lamps Go Out 1(51)
The Great War
3(14)
Family Affairs
17(12)
Blueprints for a Bloodletting
29(12)
The Black Hand
41(10)
Part 2: Home Before the Leaves Fall 51(86)
Battle of the Frontiers
53(14)
The Marne: Massacre and Miracle
67(12)
The Sun Sets in the East
79(12)
A Suicide
91(12)
Duel of Doomed Empires
103(12)
The Sick Man and Serbia
115(10)
A World War
125(12)
Part 3: We Are the Dead 137(72)
Deadlock
139(16)
A New Year and No Hope
155(10)
The Gallipoli Disaster
165(12)
The Other Fronts, 1915
177(10)
``They Shall Not Pass!''
187(12)
Italy, the Eastern Front, and Elsewhere, 1916
199(10)
Part 4: Troubled Seas and Fiery Skies 209(28)
A Tale of Two Fleets
211(12)
Winged Knights
223(14)
Part 5: Doughboys 237(106)
``He Kept Us Out of War''
239(12)
Allies Imperiled
251(16)
Over Here and Over There
267(14)
The War Beyond the Trenches, 1917-1918
281(14)
New Blood
295(14)
Second Marne
309(10)
A Million Men and More
319(12)
Eleventh Hour, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Month
331(12)
Part 6: Lost Generations 343(42)
The Tragedy of Versailles
345(12)
Disease, Disillusion, and All That Jazz
357(28)
Appendixes
A Who Was Who in World War I
365(6)
B Words of War
371(10)
C Further Reading
381(4)
Index 385

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