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• Origins of the First World War; The two plans; Failure of the Schlieffen Plan; The Western Front; Propaganda; Fighting spirit; Recruitment and resistance; Verdun; Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig; Stalemate on the Western front; November 1918: the end of the war; Review: The war on the Western Front; The war at sea; Submarine war; The British naval blockade of Germany; The war in the air; Review: The war at sea and in the air; Defending the realm; The war and British women; Review: The Home Front in Britain; The Russian front; The Gallipoli Campaign; The other fronts; Review: The fighting on other fronts.