George H. Cassar was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and received his BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick and PhD from McGill University. He began teaching in 1966 and spent the last fifty years at Eastern Michigan University where he was a professor of Military and European History. His many books on World War I include Kitchener’s War and Trial By Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres.

• Preface 1. The Making of a Warlord 2. War Plans 3. Imperial Issues and Peripheral Theaters 4. Stumbling Colossus 5. The Early Test of Leadership 6. From Antwerp to the Close of 1914 7. Drawn into the Dardanelles Vortex 8. Imperial Issues and Peripheral Theaters II 9. Mounting Troubles 10. Armaments for Russia 11. Collapse of an Active-Defense Policy 12. Imperial Issues and Peripheral heaters III 13. Tormented War Lord 14. The Final Phase 15. Kitchener's Legacy in the Great War Notes Bibliography Index

George H. Cassar was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and received his BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick and PhD from McGill University. He began teaching in 1966 and spent the last fifty years at Eastern Michigan University where he was a professor of Military and European History. His many books on World War I include Kitchener’s War and Trial By Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres.

• Preface 1. The Making of a Warlord 2. War Plans 3. Imperial Issues and Peripheral Theaters 4. Stumbling Colossus 5. The Early Test of Leadership 6. From Antwerp to the Close of 1914 7. Drawn into the Dardanelles Vortex 8. Imperial Issues and Peripheral Theaters II 9. Mounting Troubles 10. Armaments for Russia 11. Collapse of an Active-Defense Policy 12. Imperial Issues and Peripheral heaters III 13. Tormented War Lord 14. The Final Phase 15. Kitchener's Legacy in the Great War Notes Bibliography Index

George H. Cassar was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and received his BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick and PhD from McGill University. He began teaching in 1966 and spent the last fifty years at Eastern Michigan University where he was a professor of Military and European History. His many books on World War I include Kitchener’s War and Trial By Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres.

• Preface 1. The Making of a Warlord 2. War Plans 3. Imperial Issues and Peripheral Theaters 4. Stumbling Colossus 5. The Early Test of Leadership 6. From Antwerp to the Close of 1914 7. Drawn into the Dardanelles Vortex 8. Imperial Issues and Peripheral Theaters II 9. Mounting Troubles 10. Armaments for Russia 11. Collapse of an Active-Defense Policy 12. Imperial Issues and Peripheral heaters III 13. Tormented War Lord 14. The Final Phase 15. Kitchener's Legacy in the Great War Notes Bibliography Index