Table of Contents

Names, places and dates; origins - "now or never"; the plans of war; the great gamble, 1914; towards industrialized war, 1915; dual defeats, 1916 - from the Meuse to the Sereth; the long-war reality, 1915-16; survival; a sea-change 1917; the last levy, 1917-18; operation "Michael" - the "last card"; defeat, 1918-19.