Table of Contents

1. 1918: The road to victory / Jay Winter
2. Stabbed in the front: The German defeat in 1918 / Robin Prior
3. Finest hour? British forces on the Western Front in 1918: An overview / Gary Sheffield
4. From victory to defeat: The German army in 1918 / Robert T. Foley
5. A French victory, 1918 / Elizabeth Greenhalgh
6. The cost of inexperience: Americans on the Western Front, 1918 / Meleah Ward
7. Fighting to exhaustion: Morale, discipline and combat effectiveness in the armies of 1918 / Ashley Ekins
8. Maintaining the advance: Monash, battle procedure and the Australian Corps in 1918 / Peter Pedersen
9. Bloody Bapaume: New Zealand soldiers battle for the town, August-September 1918 / Glyn Harper
10. Bloody victory: The Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Campaign / Tim Cook
11. Victory at sea, 1918 / David Stevens and James Goldrick
12. Victory in the air, 1918 / Peter Hart
13. The peace settlement of 1919 and its aftermath / Trevor Wilson
14. The veterans’ voice: The Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia, 1916-19 / Martin Grotty
15. Ninety years on: Recent and changing views on the military history of the First World War / Stephen Badsey.

About the Author

Ashley Ekins is Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. He specialises in the history of World War One and the Vietnam War and has written widely on these conflicts and on the role of Australian soldiers in the Great War.