The complete idiot's guide to World War I /

By: Axelrod, Alan, 1952-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Indianapolis, IN : Alpha Books, c2000Description: xxvii, 403 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780028639024 (pbk.) :; 0028639022 (pbk.)Other title: Idiot's guide to World War I | World War ISubject(s): World War, 1914-1918 | World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns | World War, 1914-1918 -- BiographyDDC classification: 940.3
Contents:
The Lamps Go Out -- The Great War -- How Did It Start? -- Wants and Needs -- A Wrong Turn -- A Tangled Web -- Red Pants and Spiked Helmets -- Summer of Six Million -- Big Plans -- The Last Man on the Right -- Advance -- Race to the Sea -- Trenches and Graves -- No Man's Land -- Western Front -- Eastern Front -- The New War -- The Russians Leave -- The Americans Arrive -- Armistice -- Requiem at Versailles -- The Long Truce -- Family Affairs -- A Historian Remembers a Funeral -- Empires -- The Old World -- Twilight of the Kings -- Secrets and Lies -- Bismarck's Diplomacy -- The Entente -- The World as a Trap -- A Set of Wars -- Seven Weeks in 1866 -- The Shame of Sedan -- Rising Sun -- Balkan Tragedies -- Nations and Tribes -- Blueprints for a Bloodletting -- European Balance Sheet -- Allied Advantages -- A Matter of Self-Sufficiency -- Haber's Miracle -- Nations at Arms, 1914 -- France Versus Germany -- British Volunteers -- The Russian "Steamroller" -- The Dual Empire -- Deadly Innovations -- The Machine Gun -- The New Artillery -- The Dreadnoughts -- Spoiling for War -- French Elan: Plan XVII -- German Speed: The Schlieffen Plan -- Austro-Hungarian Flexibility: Plan B -- And the Russian Alphabet -- The Black Hand -- Union or Death -- The Assassins -- A Sick Boy -- The Archduke and His Lady -- A Blind Alley in Sarajevo -- June 28, 1914, 11:15 A.M. -- Crime and Punishment -- Austro-Hungarian "Diplomacy" -- The Kaiser's Pledge -- Ultimatum and Response -- The Kaiser Comes Home to a War -- First Mobilizations -- In Lockstep to Armageddon -- Home Before the Leaves Fall -- Battle of the Frontiers -- "The Guns of August" -- Across the Belgian Threshold -- An Orgy of Declarations -- Italy Avoids War--For Now -- Treaty of London -- Like an Unexpected Holiday -- Bottleneck at Liege -- Big Bertha and the Zeppelin -- Papa Joffre's Decision -- The Great Wheel -- The Schlieffen Plan in Motion -- Lorraine Erupts -- Offensive in the Ardennes -- Sambre and Mons -- "Hardly Satisfactory" -- The Marne: Massacre and Miracle -- The Fortified Camp of Paris -- Moltke's Unsure Hand -- British Peril -- Kluck Takes a Turn -- The Front Is Paris -- Kitchener Intervenes -- Taxis to the Marne -- The German Advance Falters -- Counterattack on the Marne -- Battle of the Ourcq -- Paris Saved -- Victory--of Sorts -- The End of Moltke -- Trenches on the Aisne -- Ypres -- From the First 30 Days to the Next 5 Years -- The Sun Sets in the East -- The Myth of the Russian Steamroller -- When Numbers Lie -- Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War -- The Czar's Problems -- Strategy for the Eastern Front -- What the Germans Counted On -- What Austria-Hungary Feared -- What the Russians Hoped For -- What the French Demanded -- A Divided Army -- Against East Prussia -- Encounter at Stalluponen -- Triumph and Failure at Gumbinnen -- Against Austria -- The New Commander -- A Suicide -- Prelude to a Russian Tragedy -- The Generals Decide -- Nerves -- The Russian Position, August 26, 1914 -- Tannenberg -- The German Guns Speak -- Flight and Pursuit -- The Russian Center Resists -- Encirclement -- The End of Samsonov -- Defeat at the Masurian Lakes -- Duel of Doomed Empires -- Austrian Priorities -- A New Army Materializes -- Guessing the Russian Game -- The Austro-German Advance Stalls -- Battle at Lodz -- New Orders from the Kaiser -- Carpathian Snows -- The Winter Battle -- A New Weapon -- Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes -- A Breakthrough -- The Long Retreat -- A New Eastern Front, a New Commander -- The Sick Man and Serbia -- The Turkish Connection -- Young Turks -- The Flight of the Goeben and the Breslau -- Turkey's "Declaration" -- Action in the Caucasus -- Serbia Resists -- Bulgaria Joins Austria and Germany -- The Western Allies Far from Home -- Doom and Defeat of Serbia -- The Greek Situation -- A World War -- Sea Power -- British Objectives -- German Strategy -- Battle at Helgoland Bight -- The U-Boat War Begins -- High Seas Fleet Breakout -- The Battle of Dogge.
War to End All War -- Fatal Terms -- The Promise of the League -- American Betrayal -- Wilson's Forlorn Hope -- "Not for Us" -- Finale--or Act I? -- Disease, Disillusion, and All That Jazz -- The Plague of War -- First Cases -- Pandemic! -- "Return to Normalcy" -- The New Isolationism -- How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? -- Going Dry -- The Jazz Age -- New Music -- Opting Out -- The Lost Generation and a World Remade.
Summary: Provides coverage of the causes leading to war, famous battles, weapons, and the influence on political and cultural development, and includes biographical information on key figures.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-383) and index.

The Lamps Go Out -- The Great War -- How Did It Start? -- Wants and Needs -- A Wrong Turn -- A Tangled Web -- Red Pants and Spiked Helmets -- Summer of Six Million -- Big Plans -- The Last Man on the Right -- Advance -- Race to the Sea -- Trenches and Graves -- No Man's Land -- Western Front -- Eastern Front -- The New War -- The Russians Leave -- The Americans Arrive -- Armistice -- Requiem at Versailles -- The Long Truce -- Family Affairs -- A Historian Remembers a Funeral -- Empires -- The Old World -- Twilight of the Kings -- Secrets and Lies -- Bismarck's Diplomacy -- The Entente -- The World as a Trap -- A Set of Wars -- Seven Weeks in 1866 -- The Shame of Sedan -- Rising Sun -- Balkan Tragedies -- Nations and Tribes -- Blueprints for a Bloodletting -- European Balance Sheet -- Allied Advantages -- A Matter of Self-Sufficiency -- Haber's Miracle -- Nations at Arms, 1914 -- France Versus Germany -- British Volunteers -- The Russian "Steamroller" -- The Dual Empire -- Deadly Innovations -- The Machine Gun -- The New Artillery -- The Dreadnoughts -- Spoiling for War -- French Elan: Plan XVII -- German Speed: The Schlieffen Plan -- Austro-Hungarian Flexibility: Plan B -- And the Russian Alphabet -- The Black Hand -- Union or Death -- The Assassins -- A Sick Boy -- The Archduke and His Lady -- A Blind Alley in Sarajevo -- June 28, 1914, 11:15 A.M. -- Crime and Punishment -- Austro-Hungarian "Diplomacy" -- The Kaiser's Pledge -- Ultimatum and Response -- The Kaiser Comes Home to a War -- First Mobilizations -- In Lockstep to Armageddon -- Home Before the Leaves Fall -- Battle of the Frontiers -- "The Guns of August" -- Across the Belgian Threshold -- An Orgy of Declarations -- Italy Avoids War--For Now -- Treaty of London -- Like an Unexpected Holiday -- Bottleneck at Liege -- Big Bertha and the Zeppelin -- Papa Joffre's Decision -- The Great Wheel -- The Schlieffen Plan in Motion -- Lorraine Erupts -- Offensive in the Ardennes -- Sambre and Mons -- "Hardly Satisfactory" -- The Marne: Massacre and Miracle -- The Fortified Camp of Paris -- Moltke's Unsure Hand -- British Peril -- Kluck Takes a Turn -- The Front Is Paris -- Kitchener Intervenes -- Taxis to the Marne -- The German Advance Falters -- Counterattack on the Marne -- Battle of the Ourcq -- Paris Saved -- Victory--of Sorts -- The End of Moltke -- Trenches on the Aisne -- Ypres -- From the First 30 Days to the Next 5 Years -- The Sun Sets in the East -- The Myth of the Russian Steamroller -- When Numbers Lie -- Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War -- The Czar's Problems -- Strategy for the Eastern Front -- What the Germans Counted On -- What Austria-Hungary Feared -- What the Russians Hoped For -- What the French Demanded -- A Divided Army -- Against East Prussia -- Encounter at Stalluponen -- Triumph and Failure at Gumbinnen -- Against Austria -- The New Commander -- A Suicide -- Prelude to a Russian Tragedy -- The Generals Decide -- Nerves -- The Russian Position, August 26, 1914 -- Tannenberg -- The German Guns Speak -- Flight and Pursuit -- The Russian Center Resists -- Encirclement -- The End of Samsonov -- Defeat at the Masurian Lakes -- Duel of Doomed Empires -- Austrian Priorities -- A New Army Materializes -- Guessing the Russian Game -- The Austro-German Advance Stalls -- Battle at Lodz -- New Orders from the Kaiser -- Carpathian Snows -- The Winter Battle -- A New Weapon -- Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes -- A Breakthrough -- The Long Retreat -- A New Eastern Front, a New Commander -- The Sick Man and Serbia -- The Turkish Connection -- Young Turks -- The Flight of the Goeben and the Breslau -- Turkey's "Declaration" -- Action in the Caucasus -- Serbia Resists -- Bulgaria Joins Austria and Germany -- The Western Allies Far from Home -- Doom and Defeat of Serbia -- The Greek Situation -- A World War -- Sea Power -- British Objectives -- German Strategy -- Battle at Helgoland Bight -- The U-Boat War Begins -- High Seas Fleet Breakout -- The Battle of Dogge.

War to End All War -- Fatal Terms -- The Promise of the League -- American Betrayal -- Wilson's Forlorn Hope -- "Not for Us" -- Finale--or Act I? -- Disease, Disillusion, and All That Jazz -- The Plague of War -- First Cases -- Pandemic! -- "Return to Normalcy" -- The New Isolationism -- How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? -- Going Dry -- The Jazz Age -- New Music -- Opting Out -- The Lost Generation and a World Remade.

Provides coverage of the causes leading to war, famous battles, weapons, and the influence on political and cultural development, and includes biographical information on key figures.