An Outline History of the Great War
Originally published in 1928, this volume provides an account of the key events in the First World War. Created principally for young students, and designed so it would be short enough to read in a single school term, the text consists of an outline narrative which avoids depth in favour of supplying the reader with a fundamental knowledge of the British campaign. Whilst this narrative is necessarily compressed, it is substantiated by numerous illustrations, including battlefield maps and photographs. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in military history, and historiography.
Product details
June 2011Paperback
9781107648029
302 pages
203 × 127 × 17 mm
0.33kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. The outbreak of war
- 2. Retreat and recovery
- 3. Flanders, 1914
- 4. Naval operations, 1914–5
- 5. The Western Front, 1915
- 6. The spread of the war
- 7. Gallipoli
- 8. Salonica, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, to mid-1916
- 9. The Western Front, October 1915–June 1916
- 10. The Battle of Jutland
- 11. The battle of the Somme
- 12. Winter 1916–7: a general survey
- 13. The Battle of Arras
- 14. Salonica, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, 1916–7
- 15. The Battle of Messines
- 16. The Third Battle of Ypres
- 17. The Battle of Cambrai
- 18. Italy and Palestine, to mid-1918
- 19. The German offensive on the Somme
- 20. The German offensive on the Lys
- 21. Naval operations, 1917–8
- 22. The German offensive continues
- 23. The allied counter-offensive
- 24. The final offensives in Italy, the Balkans, Palestine and Mesopotamia
- 25. The allied counter-offensive prevails
- 26. Conclusion
- Index.