Table of Contents

Introduction –The Entente Cordiale

The Schlieffen Plan

The Race to the Sea

Digging in

The Frustrations of 1915

Verdun

The Somme

The Debut of the Tank

Further Reading

Index

Promotional Information

Illustrated history of the decisive battlefront of World War I

About the Author

Michael S. Neilberg is Professor of History and co-director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including his first book, Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service , published by Harvard University Press in 2000. He taught on the faculty of the United States Air Force Academy for eight years and focuses his work on the international dimensions of the First World War and warfare more generally. Among his most recent books are Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard University Press) and a forthcoming study of the Second Battle of the Marne, to be published by Indiana University Press for its Twentieth Century Battles series. Dennis E. Showalter is a professor of history at Colorado College who specializes in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to 2001.