Elizabeth Greenhalgh is a QEII Research Fellow based in the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. Her previous publications include Victory Through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Introduction
Part I. From Theory to Practice: 1. From the Ecole de Guerre to August 1914 in Lorraine
2. 'He held to the last quarter hour': with Ninth Army on the Marne
3. Commander-in-Chief's deputy in the north, October-November 1914
4. The end of the war of movement and reflections on 1914
5. Second Artois, January-June 1915
6. Third Artois, June-October 1915
7. The scientific method: planning the Somme, 1916
8. Fighting on the Somme, July-November 1916
9. In disgrace: reflections on two years of command
10. Intermezzo 1917
Part II. Supreme Command: 11. At the Supreme War Council, November 1917-March 1918
12. Michael and Georgette, March-April 1918
13. BLÜCHER and GNEISENAU, May-June 1918
14. Marneschutz-Reims and Second Marne, July 1918
15. 'Les Boches sont dans la purée': the Huns are really in the soup
16. 'Tout le monde à la bataille'
17. Waffenstillstand, October-November 1918
18. Losing the peace
Conclusion: 'supreme command is less than people think'.