Introduction to the First Edition by the late
Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO
Preface
Introduction by Major and Mrs Holt
Acknowledgements
Section One – Prelude to War
Section Two – 1914: The Early Months of War
Section Three – 1915
Section Four – 1916
Section Five – The War in the Air
Section Six – The War at Sea
Section Seven – 1917
Section Eight – 1918
Section Nine – The World at War
Section Ten – Aftermath
Section Eleven – Memorials and Remembrance: The Somme
Biography
Sir Martin Gilbert CBE, D Litt, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian of the modern world, is the author of 88 books, including among them The First World War, A Complete History, and a focussed history on The Somme, The Heroism and Horror of War, along with nine atlases in the Routledge Historical Atlas series. For more information, please visit www.martingilbert.com.
