A controversial new history of World War I argues that the Germans beat the French and British, who were rescued by American intervention in 1918.

Introduction: The War on the Western Front -- France and the Failures of National Defense, 1870-1914 -- Germany and the Development of Combined Arms Tactics -- 1914: The Fall of the Forts -- 1914: The Battles of the Frontiers -- 1914: The Myth of the Marne -- 1914: German Offensives After the Marne -- 1915: The Struggle for the Buttes--The Vauquois and Les Eparges -- 1915: Champagne and the Woevre -- 1915: The War in the Vosges -- 1915: Allied and German Plans and Goals -- 1916: Verdun, An Unfinished Victory -- 1916: Massacre on the Somme -- 1916: Rumania and Other Catastrophes -- 1917: The Allies Play Their Last Hand -- 1917: Caporetto and Cambrai -- 1917-1918: The Great Race -- 1918: The AEF and the End of the War -- Epilogue: Pseudoreality Prevails.