Great War

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION - EXAMINING HISTORICAL SOURCES; THE GREAT WAR - A GENERAL CHRONOLOGY; 1 The World in 1914; 2 Assassination at Sarajevo; 3 Causes of Tension - Nationalism; 4 Causes of Tension - Colonialism to 1914; 5 Causes of Tension The Arms Race; 6 Causes of Tension - The Alliance System; 7 War Plans; 8 International Crisis, 1870-1914; 9 The Balkans; 10 Countdown to War; 11 Historians' Views; 12 The Causes of the Great War - Exercises in Historical Enquiry; 13 The Development of Stalemate on the Western Front in 1914; 14 Attempts to Break the Stalemate - Strategies and the Western Front 1914-1918; 15 Weapons, Technology and Tactics on the Western Front; 16 The Commanders on the Western Front; 17 The Trench Experience; 18 Mutiny and Desertion; 19 The War in Western Europe - Exercises in Historical Enquiry; 20 Beyond the Trenches - Sea and Air; 21 Beyond the Trenches - The Home Fronts; 22 Beyond the Trenches - Literature and Art; 23 The Home Fronts - Exercises in Historical Enquiry; 24 Allied Victory and German Defeat; GLOSSARY; INDEXThomas, David is the author of 'Great War', published 2000 under ISBN 9780521005449 and ISBN 0521005442.