Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

2. THE RUSSIANS REACT (#ulink_6c3183af-7027-5c31-b10d-c7d5a204b741)

3. THE GERMANS MARCH (#ulink_995dbdce-cbae-50af-b33e-b5c44979c89a)

4. THE BRITISH DECIDE (#ulink_16fbba8e-c76e-54c1-933d-da95e5189fe7)

3. ‘The Superb Spectacle of the World Bursting Into Flames’ (#u096efe0c-f365-5c05-9c84-88b9c7bf2c49)

1. MIGRATIONS

2. PASSIONS (#ulink_3136555f-0454-5060-9d24-a28d7bf851c2)

3. DEPARTURES (#litres_trial_promo)

4. Disaster on the Drina (#litres_trial_promo)

5. Death with Flags and Trumpets (#litres_trial_promo)

1. THE EXECUTION OF PLAN XVII

2. ‘GERMAN BEASTLINESS’ (#litres_trial_promo)

3. LANREZAC ENCOUNTERS SCHLIEFFEN (#litres_trial_promo)

6. The British Fight (#litres_trial_promo)

1. MONS

2. LE CATEAU: ‘WHERE THE FUN COMES IN, I DON’T KNOW’ (#litres_trial_promo)

7. The Retreat (#litres_trial_promo)

8. Tannenberg: ‘Alas, How Many Thousands Lie There Bleeding!’ (#litres_trial_promo)

9. The Hour of Joffre (#litres_trial_promo)

1. PARIS AT BAY

2. SIR JOHN DESPAIRS (#litres_trial_promo)

3. SEEDS OF HOPE (#litres_trial_promo)

10. The Nemesis of Moltke (#litres_trial_promo)

1. THE MARNE

2. ‘STALEMATE IN OUR FAVOUR’ (#litres_trial_promo)

11. ‘Poor Devils, They Fought Their Ships Like Men’ (#litres_trial_promo)

12. Three Armies in Poland (#litres_trial_promo)

13. ‘Did You Ever Dance With Him? (#litres_trial_promo)

1. HOME FRONTS

2. NEWS AND ABUSE (#litres_trial_promo)

14. Open Country, Open Sky (#litres_trial_promo)

1. CHURCHILL’S ADVENTURE

2. ‘INVENTIONS OF THE DEVIL’ (#litres_trial_promo)

15. Ypres: ‘Something that was Completely Hopeless’ (#litres_trial_promo)

16. ‘War Becomes the Scourge of Mankind’ (#litres_trial_promo)

1. POLAND

2. THE SERBS’ LAST TRIUMPH (#litres_trial_promo)

17. Mudlife (#litres_trial_promo)

18. Silent Night, Holy Night (#litres_trial_promo)

Picture Section (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Footnotes (#litres_trial_promo)

Notes and References (#litres_trial_promo)

Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

By the Same Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Illustrations (#ulink_19759a5a-60dd-57bf-85f0-2c2690ad94f6)

Author’s note: Images of the campaigns of 1914 are rare. Those professing to portray combat are often posed or faked, and many contemporary captions are wilfully or accidentally inaccurate. The pictures in this book have been chosen with these realities in mind, to give the most vivid possible impression of what the battlefields looked like, while recognising that few can be appropriately placed and dated, and some predate the war.