Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction: European Royal families the 'Arms Race'
Introduction: Balkan Wars

1914

The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Schlieffen Plan: German Troops Enter Belgium
Mons and Horses
The Battle of Tannenberg
Marne, and Attempts to Take Paris
The Race to the Sea and Ypres
Trench Systems
Anglo-Indian Forces Land in Mesopotamia
German Navy Attacks British Seaside
Railways
The Christmas Football Truce

1915

The War in Africa
Japan's Involvement
Life in the Trenches
Poison Gases Used
Guns Artillery
Gallipoli Landings
The War at Sea
Carrier Pigeons; Code-breakers; Radio Communication
Women at War
War Wounds and Medicine
Home Fronts Civilian Impact

1916

Verdun
Conscription/Joining Up
The Battle of Jutland
The Italian Front
The Somme
Tanks
Propaganda and Censorship

1917

America Joins the War
Vimy Ridge (Canadians)
Who's Who: The Allies
Who's Who: The Central Powers
The War in the East
The Mines of Messines
China Joins the War
Passchendaele
Russia Withdraws from the War

1918

War in the Skies
Spring Offensive
The Hundred Days
Kaiser Flees and Abdicates
The Armistice
The Surrender of the Last German forces in Africa
Allies Take Palestine and Defeat Ottoman Empire
The Treaty of Versailles
After-effects of War
Remembering the Fallen

Glossary
Index

About the Author

Born in London in 1944, Jim Eldridge left school at 16 and held a variety of jobs before eventually training as a teacher. He became a full-time scriptwriter and author in 1978 and has since written over 90 books with sales totaling over three million copies. The author of the best-selling My Story history series, published by Scholastic, he lives in London.

Reviews

‘Taking the war year by year adds a further level of coherence which is then enhanced  by the timeline that features as each new chapter (or year) opens.’

'The main 50 points aren't all just regarding key events – Verdun, Vimy Ridge et al. They bring many of the relevant areas of the war to life – from the women left working on the home front or the Italian situation to the use of tanks, planes, propaganda, chemical warfare€ ¦ Quite often you get the empathy of the people alive through the decade, and therefore this book would hit many points on a teacher's curriculum.'

'The main 50 points aren't all just regarding key events – Verdun, Vimy Ridge et al. They bring many of the relevant areas of the war to life – from the women left working on the home front or the Italian situation to the use of tanks, planes, propaganda, chemical warfare… Quite often you get the empathy of the people alive through the decade, and therefore this book would hit many points on a teacher's curriculum.' ‘ Taking the war year by year adds a further level of coherence which is then enhanced  by the timeline that features as each new chapter (or year) opens.’