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The Teach Yourself History series offers an alternative to academic historical books, its content being extensive yet extremely accessible and the approach refreshingly different.



The books are informative and compelling, and engage the reader from beginning to end. They assume no prior historical knowledge, and are full of anecdotes and details that provide a very personal appeal.



Teach Yourself The First World War covers all aspects of the war from an international perspective. It follows its key developments, including the build up to the war, how it developed and the role of the different countries involved.



It considers many intriguing aspects of the war, including life in the trenches, spies and espionage, the role of women, propaganda, weapons of war and the loss of life. It looks at the impact of the war on those involved and questions why Germany lost the war.



The aim throughout is to give you a better understanding of the events that ultimately led to the slaughter of some nine million men and left a further twenty-nine million either wounded or missing.

Table of Contents:
01 Europe before 1914
      Europe at the dawn of a new century
      The great powers
      Europe’s royal dynasties
      Great power rivalry
      From rivalries to alliances and ententes
02 The coming of war
      Crises and confrontation
      Assassination at Sarajevo
      ‘War by timetable’
      The British involvement
03 The opening moves on the Western Front
      Reaction to the declaration of war
      Opening moves and the failure of the Schlieffen Plan
      Mons and the Marne – ‘the most important battle of the twentieth century
      The ‘Race to the Sea’ and the Ypres Salient
      The Christmas truce – did it really happen?
04 Stalemate and a widening war
      The situation at the start of 1915
      The involvement of Turkey
      Italy changes sides
      Balkan interlude
      The fate of Germany’s colonies in the Pacific and Africa
05 The men and their weapons
      Regulars, volunteers and recruits
      A matter of rank
      Uniforms, conditions and pay
      British, French and German soldiers – a comparison
      Weapons used in the trenches
      New weapons of war - gas and tanks
06 The Western Front – trench warfare
      The trench system
      Everyday life – daily routine in the trenches
      Food, health and personal hygiene
      Discipline
      Treatment of the wounded
      Spiritual matters
07 The Dardanelles fiasco
      Easterners versus Westerners
      The ANZACs
      Conditions on the Gallipoli peninsula
      ‘The man with a donkey’ and ‘The Sandringham Company’
      The final evacuation
08 Issues of bravery and cowardice
      Willpower – ‘Wherof no man has an unlimited stock’
      Recognition of acts of bravery
      Courts martial and executions at dawn
      The cases of Albert Ingham and Edwin Dyett
      The Etaples mutiny
      ‘The Monocled Mutineer’ – Did Percy Toplis really exist?
09 The Eastern Front
      Opening campaigns
      The soldiers of the ‘Steamroller Army’
      What went wrong on the Eastern Front?
10 The slaughters of 1916
      Why Verdun?
      The battle and the outcome
      Why the Somme?
      ‘Lions led by donkeys’ and the Haig controversy
      Why such a heavy loss of life? Was it worth it?
11 The war at sea
      The struggle for naval supremacy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781444105179
  • Publisher: Hodder Education
  • Publisher Imprint: http://images.hachette.co.uk/Websites/Images/Store
  • ISBN-10: 1444105175
  • Publisher Date: 20100827
  • Binding: Paperback

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