Includes bibliographical references (p. [649]-657) and index
List of maps and illustrations -- Major characters -- July 1914: into the abyss -- The Serbs -- The Hapsburgs -- The Hohenzollerns -- The Romanovs -- The Ottoman Turks -- Paris in 1914 -- London 1914 -- The junkers -- The French commanders -- Flanders fields -- The machinery of death -- The Dardanelles: the sea war -- Ypres again: Troglodytes -- Gallipoli -- Genocide -- Verdun: landships and airships - Maelstrom: the Jews of Germany - The Somme -- Turnips and submarines -- The Cossacks -- The Nivelle offensive -- Passchendaele -- Kaiser Wilhelm II -- Lawrence of Arabia -- Ludendorff -- The women -- The gardeners of Salonika