NOTE

The manuscript of this book, except the last chapter, was finished on 21 May 1919, and the revision of the last chapter was completed in October. It may be some relief to a public, distracted by the apologetic deluge which has followed on the peace, to find how little the broad and familiar outlines of the war have thereby been affected.

A. F. P.

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CONTENTS

CHAP.
I. [THE BREACH OF THE PEACE ]
II. [THE GERMAN INVASION ]
III. [RUSSIA MOVES ]
IV. [THE WAR ON AND BEYOND THE SEAS ]
V. [ESTABLISHING THE WESTERN FRONT ]
VI. [THE FIRST WINTER OF THE WAR ]
VII. [THE FAILURE OF THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE ]
VIII. [THE DEFEAT OF RUSSIA ]
IX. [THE CLIMAX OF GERMAN SUCCESS ]
X. [THE SECOND WINTER OF THE WAR ]
XI. [THE SECOND GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN THE WEST]
XII. [THE ALLIED COUNTER-OFFENSIVE ]
XIII. [THE BALKANS AND POLITICAL REACTIONS ]
XIV. [THE TURN OF THE TIDE ]
XV. [HOPE DEFERRED ]
XVI. [THE BALANCE OF POWER ]
XVII. [THE EVE OF THE FINAL STRUGGLE ]
XVIII. [THE LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE ]
XIX. [THE VICTORY OF THE ENTENTE ]
XX. [THE FOUNDATIONS OF PEACE ]