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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

List of Maps

List of Illustrations

Chronology

Major Characters

Introduction

PART ONE

July 1914: Into the Abyss

Chapter 1 June 28: The Black Hand Descends

Background: The Serbs

Chapter 2 Never Again

Background: The Hapsburgs

Chapter 3 Setting Fire to Europe

Background: The Hohenzollerns

Chapter 4 July 25 to 28: Secrets and Lies

Background: The Romanovs

Chapter 5 July 29 to 31: Fear Is a Bad Counselor

Background: The Ottoman Turks

Chapter 6 Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the Dark

PART TWO

August–December 1914: Racing to Deadlock

Chapter 7 The Iron Dice Roll

Background: Paris in 1914

Chapter 8 First Blood

Background: London in 1914

Chapter 9 A Perfect Balance

Background: The Junkers

Chapter 10 To the Marne

Background: The French Commanders

Chapter 11 Back from the Marne

Background: The British Commanders

Chapter 12 Flanders Fields

PART THREE

1915: A Zero-Sum Game

Chapter 13 The Search for Elsewhere

Background: The Machinery of Death

Chapter 14 The Dardanelles

Background: The Sea War

Chapter 15 Ypres Again

Background: Troglodytes

Chapter 16 Gallipoli

Background: An Infinite Appetite for Shells

Chapter 17 The Ground Shifts

Background: Genocide

Chapter 18 Gallipoli Again, and Poland, and…

PART FOUR

1916: Bleeding to Death

Chapter 19 Verdun: Preparation

Background: Old Wounds Unhealed

Chapter 20 Verdun: Execution

Background: The Living Dead

Chapter 21 Verdun Metastasizes

Background: Airships and Landships

Chapter 22 Maelstrom

Background: The Jews of Germany

Chapter 23 The Somme

Background: Farewells, and an Arrival at the Top

Chapter 24 Exhaustion

PART FIVE

1917: Things Fall Apart

Chapter 25 Turnips and Submarines

Background: Consuming the Future

Chapter 26 A New Defense, and a New Offensive

Background: Hearts and Minds

Chapter 27 Revolution and Intervention

Background: The Cossacks

Chapter 28 The Nivelle Offensive

Background: The War and Poetry

Chapter 29 Wars Without Guns

Background: Enter the Tiger

Chapter 30 Passchendaele

PART SIX

1918: Last Throw of the Dice

Chapter 31 Going for Broke

Background: Kaiser Wilhelm II

Chapter 32 Entangling Misalliances

Background: Lawrence of Arabia

Chapter 33 Michael

Background: Ludendorff

Chapter 34 An Impossibly Complex Game

Background: The Women

Chapter 35 The Black Day of the German Army

Background: The Gardeners of Salonika

Chapter 36 The Sign of the Defeated

Postwar: The Fate of Men and Nations

Notes

Bibliography

Also by G. J. Meyer

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