The Routledge Atlas of the First World War

Martin Gilbert

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135108373
• Subtopic: Historical Geography
• Index: History

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 174 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its military, social, political and economic aspects. Beginning with the tensions that already existed, the atlas covers:

• the early months of the war: from the fall of Belgium to the fierce fighting at Ypres and Tannenberg:
• the developing war in Europe: from Gallipoli to the horrors of the Somme and Verdun
• life at the front: from living underground, the trench system and the mud of Passchendaele to the war graves
• technology and the new horrors: from phosgene gas attacks to submarines, tanks and mines
• the home fronts: from German food riots to the air defence of Britain, the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Austria-Hungary
• the aftermath: from war debts and war deaths to the new map of Europe.

This third edition contains an entirely new section depicting the visual remembrance of the war; a fascinating visitors' guide to the memorials that commemorate the tragedy of the Somme.

Index

Index compiled by the author

Afghanistan: neutral throughout the war, 95; German diplomatic activity in, 126; refuses to abandon neutrality, 132

Africa: and the European powers, 6; and the war in July 1917, 95; and the final German military effort, 97; German war aims in, 128; Germany deprived of all her possessions in, 145

Albania: Italian aspirations in, 7; created as a foil to Serbia, 8; neutral on the outbreak of war, 12; Allied plans for, 37; Austrian armies advance through, 49; southern territory held by Allies, 62; Austrians driven from, 120, 123; German wartime economic plans for, 127

Alexandretta: British plan for a possible landing at, 32; and proposed annexation of, 34; a possible free port, 40; claimed as part of Greater Armenia, 41; German war aims in, 105; French naval landing at, 116; becomes a part of the French mandate in Syria, 146

Alsace-Lorraine: Gambetta’s advice on, 1; still a part of Germany and under German control at the time of the Armistice, 118; French plans for, 125; returned to France, 144

Antwerp: British troops active in defence of, 17, 18; first Zeppelin deaths in, 64; German ships detained in, 76; still under German occupation at the time of the Armistice, 118; German plans for, 124

Anzac: (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) fights on Gallipoli Peninsula, 38, 39; and at Passchendaele, 103

Arabs: within the Turkish Empire, 3; revolt against Turkey, 42, 63, 114; advance against the Turks, 113, 116

Argentina: neutral throughout the war, 95; sends meat supplies to the Allies, 134; provides horses for Britain, 135; large increase in gold reserves as a result of the war, 143

Armenia: part of territory promised to Russia, 40; and the Turks, 41; German war aims in, 105; offered to the United States as a mandate, 146; war debts to the United States, 157

Arras: Hitler at the battle of, 59; British plan to advance from, 88; and battle of Vimy Ridge, 89; and subterranean life of, 91; and strongpoints in the defence of, 92

Ataturk: active in tenacious Turkish defence of Gallipoli Peninsula, 38; preserves Turkey as a vigorous national entity, 148, 149

Australia: and Germany’s Far Eastern Empire, 23, 24; her troops at Passchendaele, 103; her contribution to the Empire war effort, 130; sends meat to the Allies, 134; increases her gold reserves slightly as a result of the war, 143

Austria: a new state created after the defeat of Austria– Hungary, 152, 155; her peace treaty with the Allies, 154; receives reconstruction loans from Britain and the United States, 156, 157

Austria–Hungary: Germany’s only firm ally, 2; minority discontent in, 3; and Berlin–Bagdad railway, 4; invades Serbia, 14; invaded by Russia, 27; Allied plans for possible attack on, 32; her Adriatic coastline promised to Italy and the South Slavs, 36; drives Russian army from Galicia, 47; invades Serbia, 48; excellent communications system of, 61; invades Rumania, 62; Russians plan further advance against, 106; Russians driven from, 107; internal disintegration of, 114, 115, 152; revolt of Serbs in, 120; agrees to Armistice, 123; her war effort, 141; the high cost of the war to, 142; war dead, 158

Bagdad: terminus of railway from Berlin, 4; Russian plan to attack, 33; British plan to annexe, 34; British armies fail to reach, 43; occupied by the British in 1917, 63; British advances into Turkey from, 116

Belgium: on German invasion route, 10; invaded, 14, 15; German conquest of, 17; her troops active against the Germans in Africa, 31; shipping losses, 84; and the defeat of Germany, 117; occupation zone in Germany, 118; German plans for, 124; her neutrality, 125; and German economic aspirations, 127; and African native labourers as part of British war effort, 136; British wartime supplies to, 140; gold reserves fall as a result of the war, 142; war debts to Britain and the United States, 156, 157; war dead, 158

Berlin: terminus of railway to Bagdad, 4; British plan of attack against, 43; centre of German communications, 61; food riots in, 77; strikes in, 99; revolutionary activity in, 114, 121

Blockade: Allied naval blockade of Germany, 74, 76; effect of in Germany, 77, 99; its extent, 113

Bolsheviks: demand immediate end to war, 106; influence Russian troops to mutiny, 107; seize power in Petrograd, 108; seize power throughout Russia, 109; triumphant in Bavaria, 121

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction to the First Edition by the late Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO
• Preface
• List of Maps
• 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
• Bibliographical Note
• Index