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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Author's | |
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| Preface | |
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| Foreword | |
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| 1914: Mons, 1st Marne, 1st Ypres, Christmas Truce Europe tumbles into war | |
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| Austria and Germany declare war on Russia and France | |
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| German troops march into Belgium | |
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| Britain declares war on Germany | |
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| Britain mobilises the reserves | |
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| General Joffre approaches Paris | |
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| Germany's advance comes towards Dunkirk halted in Belgium at Ypres | |
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| 1915: Neuve Chapelle, 2nd Ypres, Loos Home Front gears up for war | |
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| Allied offensive in Artois and Champagne | |
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| Casualty lists lengthen | |
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| Poison gas enters the war at Ypres | |
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| The french attack from Vimy Ridge to Arras | |
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| General Haig takes command of the British Expeditionary Force | |
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| 1916: Verdun , Somme, Thiepval | |
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| The British Army goes over the top | |
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| Another endless year in the trenches | |
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| British fail to take the Somme Casualty lists shock the Home Front | |
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| Maxim machine gunes hold the German line | |
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| The British attack between Combles and the Ancre Valley | |
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| 1917: 1st Arras, 3rd Ypres, Passchendaele, Cambrai Germany defends East and West Fronts | |
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| The Hindenberg Line defends the trenches | |
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| The Canadians capture Vimy Ridge | |
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| Britain attacks the Messines Ridge | |
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| Weather forces bite and hold tactics | |
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| Germany faces defeat | |
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| 1918: German Breakthrough, Cantigny, Amiens, 2nd Arras Germany focuses on the Western Front and achieves the greatest advance since | |
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| Villers-Bretonneux falls, and is retaken | |
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| Tanks fight tanks for the first time | |
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| German advances cause crisis for the Allies | |
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| Foch blocks an attack on Paris | |
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| America joins the war | |
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| Germany requests armistice | |
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| Index of contributors | |
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| General index | |