The complete idiot's guide to World War I. (©2000)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The complete idiot's guide to World War I. (©2000)
- Main Title:
- The complete idiot's guide to World War I
- Other Titles:
- Idiot's guide to World War I
World War I - Further Information:
- Note: By Alan Axelrod.
- Other Names:
- Axelrod, Alan, 1952-
- Contents:
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I; Copyright; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 The Lamps Go Out; Chapter 1 The Great War; How Did It Start?; Red Pants and Spiked Helmets ; The Last Man on the Right; No Man's Land; The New War; Armistice; Chapter 2 Family Affairs; A Historian Remembers a Funeral; Empires; Secrets and Lies; A Set of Wars; Chapter 3 Blueprints for a Bloodletting; European Balance Sheet; Nations at Arms, 1914; Deadly Innovations; Spoiling for War; Chapter 4 The Black Hand; Union or Death; The Archduke and His Lady; Crime and Punishment The Kaiser Comes Home to a WarPart 2 Home Before the Leaves Fall; Chapter 5 Battle of the Frontiers; "The Guns of August"; Bottleneck at Liège; The Great Wheel; Sambre and Mons; "Hardly Satisfactory"; Chapter 6 The Marne: Massacre and Miracle; The Fortified Camp of Paris; Moltke's Unsure Hand; Taxis to the Marne; Trenches on the Aisne; Ypres; From the First 30 Days to the Next 5 Years; Chapter 7 The Sun Sets in the East; The Myth of the Russian Steamroller; Strategy for the Eastern Front; A Divided Army; The New Commander; Chapter 8 A Suicide; Prelude to a Russian Tragedy; Tannenberg Defeat at the Masurian LakesChapter 9 Duel of Doomed Empires; Austrian Priorities; A New Army Materializes; Carpathian Snows; The Winter Battle; A Breakthrough; Chapter 10 The Sick Man and Serbia; The Turkish Connection; Action in the Caucasus; Serbia Resists; The Greek Situation; Chapter 11 A World War; SeaThe Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I; Copyright; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 The Lamps Go Out; Chapter 1 The Great War; How Did It Start?; Red Pants and Spiked Helmets ; The Last Man on the Right; No Man's Land; The New War; Armistice; Chapter 2 Family Affairs; A Historian Remembers a Funeral; Empires; Secrets and Lies; A Set of Wars; Chapter 3 Blueprints for a Bloodletting; European Balance Sheet; Nations at Arms, 1914; Deadly Innovations; Spoiling for War; Chapter 4 The Black Hand; Union or Death; The Archduke and His Lady; Crime and Punishment The Kaiser Comes Home to a WarPart 2 Home Before the Leaves Fall; Chapter 5 Battle of the Frontiers; "The Guns of August"; Bottleneck at Liège; The Great Wheel; Sambre and Mons; "Hardly Satisfactory"; Chapter 6 The Marne: Massacre and Miracle; The Fortified Camp of Paris; Moltke's Unsure Hand; Taxis to the Marne; Trenches on the Aisne; Ypres; From the First 30 Days to the Next 5 Years; Chapter 7 The Sun Sets in the East; The Myth of the Russian Steamroller; Strategy for the Eastern Front; A Divided Army; The New Commander; Chapter 8 A Suicide; Prelude to a Russian Tragedy; Tannenberg Defeat at the Masurian LakesChapter 9 Duel of Doomed Empires; Austrian Priorities; A New Army Materializes; Carpathian Snows; The Winter Battle; A Breakthrough; Chapter 10 The Sick Man and Serbia; The Turkish Connection; Action in the Caucasus; Serbia Resists; The Greek Situation; Chapter 11 A World War; Sea Power; Battle at Helgoland Bight; The U-Boat War Begins; High Seas Fleet Breakout; Lusitania Lost!; Empires Far Flung; German China and the German Pacific; The German Genius of East Africa; Part 3 We Are the Dead; Chapter 12 Deadlock; The Technology of Stalemate; The New German Strategy Allied ArgumentsTrench Life; Poison Gas; Chapter 13 A New Year and No Hope; A Crisis of Priorities; 500 Yards for 50, 000 Men; Fire from the Sky; Woëvre and Ypres; Allied Offensives; A Changing of the Guard; Chapter 14 The Gallipoli Disaster; To Break the Deadlock; First Landings; Second Landing; Russia, Hanging; Chapter 15 The Other Fronts, 1915; Enter Italy; The First Battles of Isonzo; Death in the Caucasus; Genocide; The Holy Land and Mesopotamia; And Persia; Chapter 16 "They Shall Not Pass!"; Falkenhayn Writes to the Kaiser; To Bleed France White; Pétain's Courage; Offensive on the Somme Chapter 17 Italy, the Eastern Front, and Elsewhere, 1916More Battles on the Isonzo; An Italian Appeal; In the Bird Cage; Action on the Turkish Fronts; Part 4 Troubled Seas and Fiery Skies; Chapter 18 A Tale of Two Fleets; The Enemy Below; The Jutland Opportunity; Jutland: Darkness Falls; High Seas Coda; Chapter 19 Winged Knights; The Air War: First Phase; Dogfight!; Fighter Tactics; Ground Attack; Part 5 Doughboys; Chapter 20 "He Kept Us Out of War"; Staying Neutral; America Drifts Toward War; The Zimmermann Telegram; Applause for a Message of Death; Chapter 21 Allies Imperiled … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Indianapolis, IN : Alpha Books
- Publication Date:
- 2000
- Copyright Date:
- 2000
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 403 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 940.3
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns
World War, 1914-1918 -- Biography
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I
Military campaigns
Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Biography
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns
World War, 1914-1918
Electronic books
Biography
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 0786548959
9780786548958
9781101198988
1101198982 - Related ISBNs:
- 0028639022
9780028639024 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-383) and index.
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