1. A university of the trenches -- 2. 1913-14 : the curative power of war -- 3. Cannon fodder -- 4. West Flanders 1914 -- 5. Winter 1914-15 -- 6. Neuve Chapelle 1915 -- 7. Fromelles 1915 -- 8. Nursery tales of 1915 -- 9. Hugo Gutmann and the good soldier mend -- 10. Fromelles 1916 -- 11. Hell on the Somme -- 12. Declining fortune -- 13. 1918 -- Epilogue : the greatest commander-in-chief of all time