The Great War, 1914-1918

War, the liberator

Patriotic war

Inevitable war

Imaginary war

'War on war'

War is declared

From movement to stagnation

Strong points and weak points

Verdun and the great battles

Cannon fodder and the new art of war

Styles of war: direct and indirect

World war and total war

The possible and the impossible

Tensions new and old

Crises of war

Revolutionary peace, compromise peace, victorious peace

Between war and crusade

The illusions of victory

Maps

Tables.