“An Act of Madness”?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Content v
3. Danksagung vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction
6. What Was the Great War about? 3
7. Military Operations and National Policies, 1914–1918 7
8. War Aims and Strategies of the Entente Powers of 1914
9. French War Aims and Strategy 29
10. British Strategy and War Aims in the First World War 45
11. War as Legitimisation of Revolution, Revolution as Justification of War 61
12. Serbian War Aims and Military Strategy, 1914–1918 79
13. War Aims and Strategies of the Central Powers of 1914
14. Strategy, Politics, and the Quest for a Negotiated Peace 97
15. “A Life and Death Question”: Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the First World War 117
16. Reflection
17. Mourir pour Liège? World War I War Aims in a Long-Term Perspective 143
18. War Aims and Strategies of Powers Entering the Conflict Later than August 1914
19. Ottoman Strategy and War Aims during the First World War 163
20. “An Act of Madness”? 187
21. President Wilson and the War Aims of the United States 209
22. Conclusion
23. “… eine Internationale der Kriegsverschärfung und der Kriegsverlängerung …” War Aims and the Chances for a Compromise Peace during the First World War 237
24. List of Authors 255