INTRODUCTION: by Herbert Mitgang -- FOREWORD: by William Manchester -- Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans -- The Armies -- The first month by Richard M. Watt -- Battle for survival -- THE MARNE: by Winston Churchill -- Gallipoli -- THE ANZAC BEACHHEAD: by Alan Moorehead -- Early days in the trenches -- IN THE CAMBRIN AND CUICHY TRENCHES: by Robert Graves -- Not an inch to be yielded -- LOOS: FIRST AND SECOND DAYS: by Alan Clark -- The year of killing -- VERDUN: THE FALL OF FORT DOUAUMONT: by Alistair Horne -- War on the high seas -- THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND: by Hanson Baldwin -- The Somme -- Mametz Wood -- UP TO MAMETZ: by L.W. Griffith -- Arras -- A BOMBING PARTY: by Siegfried Sassoon -- Flanders and the Ypres Salient -- THE TUNNELS AT MESSINES: by Leon Wolff -- Rain and mud at Ypres -- THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES: by Frank Richards -- The desert warfare -- BLOWING UP TRAINS: by T.E. Lawrence -- The Western Front in 1918 -- THE CHARGE AT SOISSONS: by John W. Thomason -- The tide turns -- The lost battalion -- ALAMO OF THE ARGONNE: by Richard Hanser and Hy Stockman -- The Aces -- MICK MANNOCK: by Frederick Oughton -- Assault on a German U-boat base -- ZEEBRUGGE: by Barrie Pitt -- Last days -- REMEMBER ALWAYS TO DARE: by Hanson Baldwin -- AFTERWORD: by William Manchester.