CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 PEACE BREAKS OUT CHAPTER 2 THE GREAT WAR CHAPTER 3 APPEALS FOR PEACE 30 CHAPTER 4 THE CHRISTMAS SEASON CHAPTER 5 CHRISTMAS MEALS AND SOCCER MATCHES 56 CHAPTER6 CARRYING ON THE FIGHT CHAPTER 7 A NEW YEAR OF WAR CHAPTER 8PEACE AND AFTERMATH TIMELINE ESSENTIAL FACTs 100 GLOSSARY 102 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 SOURCE NOTES 106 INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Belgian troops marched to defend their country in
CHAPTED PEACE BREAKS OUT World War I 1914 1918 known to those who fought it as the Great War began in Europe during a spell of fine midsummer weather Armies numbering in the millions marched to the front lines while civilians on all sides cheered them on and prayed for a swift victory French and English troops faced German infantry in Belgium and northern France Germany invaded Russian occupied Poland Heavy guns behind the lines provided cover for daytime assaults As the war dragged on into the fall the battles on the western front turned into a stalemate It was the assassination of an Austrian prince in the early summer of 1914 that started the diplomatic crisis that led to war After six weeks of threats the Central powers Germany Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire went to war with
