Author's Note

Illustrations

Maps

A Funeral

Plans

"Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with his Sleeve"

The Shadow of Sedan

"A Single British Soldier ..."

The Russian Steam Roller

Outbreak

Outbreak

August 1: Berlin

August 1: Paris and London

Ultimatum in Brussels

"Home Before the Leaves Fall"

Battle

"Goeben ... An Enemy Then Flying"

Liege and Alsace

BEF to the Continent

Sambre et Meuse

Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons

"The Cossacks Are Coming!"

Tannenberg

The Flames of Louvain

Blue Water, Blockade, and the Great Neutral

Retreat

The Front Is Paris

Von Kluck's Turn

"Gentlemen, We Will Fight on the Marne"

Afterword

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