Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-435) and index.
Contents:
The desperate hours -- The boy who blew up the world -- "A lovely war" -- 'Goya at his most Macabre" -- Upon a midnight clear -- "The God who gave the cannon gave the cross" -- The three musketeers -- A scar from Belgium to Switzerland -- Every inch a solider -- "They shall not pass" -- "What did you do in the great war, Dad?" -- "Tomorrow I shall take my men over the top" -- "Hindenburg! The name itself is massive" -- "Keeping the world safe for democracy" -- "Acts prejudicial to military discipline" -- Doughboys -- "Sweet and noble to die for one's country" -- "Over there" -- "If this is our country, then this is our war" -- Ludendorff's grand gamble -- "A German bullet is cleaner that a whore" -- Baptism in Cantigny -- "Do you want to live forever?" -- "I don't expect to see any of you again" -- "Do you wish to take part in this battle?" -- A civilized end to pointless slaughter -- A plague in the trenches -- "Victims who will die in vain" -- "We knew the end could not be far off" -- "Pass the word. Cease fire at eleven!" -- "Little short of murder" -- The fate of Private Gunther -- "This fateful morning came an end to all wars" -- Greater losses than on D-Day -- "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
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