
Britain Goes to War
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One
- Chapter 1: The Origins of the First World War Revisited
- Chapter 2: British Readiness for War
- Chapter 3: The Shock of War: How Britain Entered the First World War
- Chapter 4: The National Response to the Outbreak of War, 1914
- Chapter 5: War Readiness in Britain: the Royal Navy, August 1914-January 1915
- Chapter 6: True Grit: Officers of the British Expeditionary Force and the Great Retreat, 1914
- Chapter 7: The Raising of the New Armies: Some Further Reflections
- Chapter 8: First Clash of Arms in the West: British and German Soldiers in Action, 1914
- Part Two
- Chapter 9: The Green Howards and Corporal Tom Riordan at the First Battle of Ypres
- Chapter 10: Britons in Berlin: Ruhleben - the Internment of British Civilians
- Chapter 11: The Torment of Captivity: Germans, Austrians and Turks Interned on the Isle of Man
- Chapter 12: From Cricket Whites to Khaki - Sport and the Great War
- Chapter 13: Infantry Weapons of the Great War
- Chapter 14: 'Kettledrums of Death': Some Field Guns and Howitzers of the Great War
- Chapter 15: Silent Soldiers: Animals in the Great War
- Chapter 16: New Horizons - A War in the Air, 1914
- Chapter 17: The Mobilization and Experience of Nurses in the First World War
- Part Three
- Chapter 18: Tracing Your Family's History in the Great War
- Chapter 19: The Liddle Collection of First World War Archival Materials in the University of Leeds
- Chapter 20: Lawnswood Cemetery in Leeds and the First World War
- Notes on Contributors
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