Hew Strachan: Introduction; 1 Samuel R. Williamson, Jr: The Origins of the War; 2 Holger Afflerbach: The Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914-1917; 3 D. E. Showalter: Manoeuvre Warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914-1915; 4 David French: The Strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914-1917; 5 R. J. Crampton: The Balkans, 1914-1918; 6 Ulrich Trumpener: Turkey's War; 7 David Killingray: The War in Africa; 8 Paul G. Halpern: The War at Sea; 9 B. J. C. McKercher: Economic Warfare; 10 Hew Strachan: Economic Mobilization: Money, Munitions, Machines; 11 Susan Grayzel: The Role of Women in War; 12 J. A. Turner: The Challenge to Liberalism: The Politics of the Home Fronts; 13 Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson: Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916-1917; 14 Alexander Watson: Mutinies and Military Morale; 15 David Stevenson: War Aims and Peace Negotiations; 16 J. M. Winter: Propaganda and the Mobilization of Consent; 17 John Horne: Socialism, Peace, and Revolution, 1917-1918; 18 David Trask: The Entry of the USA into the War and its Effects; 19 Holger H. Herwig: The German Victories, 1917-1918; 20 John H. Morrow, Jr: The War in the Air; 21 Tim Travers: The Allied Victories, 1918; 22 Zara Steiner: The Peace Settlement; 23 Robert Gerwarth: No End to War; 24 Modris Eksteins: Memory and the Great War; Further Reading; Index

Hew Strachan was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow between 1975 and 1992. Since then he has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow, Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, and on his retirement from Oxford in 2015 Wardlaw Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. The first volume of his planned trilogy on the First World War, To Arms, was published in 2001, and in 2003 he was the historian behind the 10-part series, The First World War, broadcast on Channel 4. He has served as a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner and as a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and during the centenary of the First World War sat on the advisory committees of the British, Scottish and French governments. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was knighted in 2013.

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