by Norman Stone
St Gond, French attacks (1914), 37
St Mihiel salient, 78, 142
St Quentin, battle (1918), 142
Salonica, 91, 144
Samsonov, Genl Alexander, 39, 40
Sarajevo, 18–19
Schiedemann, Philipp, 146
Schlieffen, Field Marshal Alfred von, 17, 33
Schmoller, Gustav, 100
Schörner, Lt (later Genl Field Marshall) Ferdinand, 120
Schulenburg, Friedrich Graf von der, 78
Schuster, Sir Frederick, 30
Seeckt, Hans von (11th Army Chief of Staff), 69
Serbia, 13, 18; Austria and, 41–4; overwhelmed (1915), 71–2;in Salonica, 91
Sering, Max, 100
Siegfried Line, 142–3
Smirnov, Genl, 80
Somme, battle of the (1916), 83–7
Stalin, Joseph, 154
Stolypin, Pyotr, 16
submarines, unrestricted warfare, 97, 98–102
Suez Canal, Ottoman attack (1915), 49
Talat Pasha, 49, 58–9
tanks, 86, 104, 117, 139–41
Tannenberg, battle (1914), 40
Taylor, A. J. P., 18
Teleszky Jaános, Baron, 30
Teschen, 47
Thionville, 34
Trade Unions, Russia, 110
trench systems and warfare, 45–6
Trotsky, Leon, 124, 129
Truman, Harry S., 25
Turkey, 9; alliance with Germany, 13–14, 48–9; Arab provinces, 57, 144; Armenians (1915), 58–9; armistice (1918), 144; casualties and losses, 59; the Caucasus and, 49, 57, 144; Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaign (1915–16), 57–9; Holy War declared, 57; loss of empire in Africa and Balkans, 12–13;Sèvres & Lausanne Treaties (1921& 1923), 154; warships commandeered by Britain, 48
Ukraine, 6, 130
United States of America: armistice negotiations (1918), 146–8; blockade and, 55, 57, 103; declares war on Germany, 102–3; German submarine warfare and, 98–9, 100, 102; von Papen’s sabotage attempt, 60
United States army, in France, 133, 138–9, 140, 142, 143
Verdun, 37, 77–80, 105
Versailles Treaty (1919), 153, 154–5
Villers-Cotterêts, French counterattack (1918), 139, 141
Vilna, 71
Vimy Ridge, battle (1917), 106
Vittorio Veneto, battle (1918), 145
war, the build up, 7, 11–23; illusions, 31–2; Napoleonic parallels, 53–4
Warsaw, 70
Weber, Max, 9–10, 24, 103
Wells, H. G., 86
Wesendonck, Otto-Günther von, 130
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 8, 21, 42, 67, 79, 139, 141, 145–6, 147–8
Wilhelm (Friedrich Wilhelm), Crown Prince, 78, 79
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow, 97, 98, 100–101, 103, 112; Fourteen Points, 131, 144, 145, 146; Peace Treaties (1919), 153
‘Young Turks’, 14, 48–9, 57, 58–9, 144
Ypres, first battle (1914), 45; second battle (1915), 61, 105; third battle (1917), 112, 113–17; German offensive (1918), 136–7
Zeppelins, 100
Zimmermann telegram, 103
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
World War One
ONE: OUTBREAK
TWO: 1914
THREE: 1915
FOUR: 1916
FIVE: 1917
SIX: 1918
SEVEN: AFTERMATH
Some Sources
Index
