Table of Contents
List of plates vii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction xii
Part 1
Chapter 1 The Origins of the First World War Revisited Gary Sheffield 3
Chapter 2 British Readiness for War John Bourne 18
Chapter 3 The Shock of War: How Britain Entered the First World War Catriona Pennell 32
Chapter 4 The National Response to the Outbreak of War, 1914 Edward M. Spiers 45
Chapter 5 War Readiness in Britain: the Royal Navy, August 1914-January 1915 Dominic Tweddle 62
Chapter 6 True Grit: Officers of the British Expeditionary Force and the Great Retreat, 1914 Spencer Jones 78
Chapter 7 The Raising of the New Armies: Some Further Reflections Peter Simians 92
Chapter 8 First Clash of Arms in the West; British and German Soldiers in Action, 1914 Matthew Richardson 112
Part 2
Chapter 9 The Green Howards and Corporal Tom Riordan at the First Battle of Ypres Roger Chapman 134
Chapter 10 Britons in Berlin: Ruhleben - the Internment of British Civilians Peter Liddle 147
Chapter 11 The Torment of Captivity: Germans, Austrians and Turks Interned on the Isle of Man Matthew Richardson 162
Chapter 12 From Cricket Whites to Khaki - Sport and the Great War Clive Harris 182
Chapter 13 Infantry Weapons of the Great War John Whitchurch 197
Chapter 14 'Kettledrums of Death': Some Field Guns and Howitzers of the Great War Philip Magrath 213
Chapter 15 Silent Soldiers: Animals in the Great War Paid Skelton-Stroud 228
Chapter 16 New Horizons - A War in the Air, 1914 Nick Forder 241
Chapter 17 The Mobilization and Experience of Nurses in the First World War Alison S. Fell 259
Part 3
Chapter 18 Tracing Your Family's History in the Great War Chris Baker 274
Chapter 19 The Liddle Collection of First World War Archival Materials in the University of Leeds Peter Liddle 284
Chapter 20 Lawnswood Cemetery in Leeds and the First World War Andrea Hetherington 291
Notes on Contributors 302
Index 308
