Contents

Introduction

1. Assassination in Sarajevo

2. On the Brink of the Abyss

3. The Strange Story of the Kaiser and the Tsar

4. Into the Abyss

5. The Great Slaughter Begins

6. Wilfred Owen and the Muse of War

7. Tsarist Russia and the War

8. Turkey Joins the War

9. Victims and Aggressors

10. The USA: War is Good for Business

11. Big Bandits and Small Bandits

12. Under Fire – The Real Face of War

13. 1916-17: The Turning of the Tide

14. The Middle East and the Sykes-Picot Treaty: A Poisonous Legacy

15. How Revolution Ended the First World War

16. The Treaty of Versailles: The Peace to End All Peace

Epilogue: Revolutionary Optimism