| List of Maps | p. xiv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvi |
| 1914 | |
| 2 August, "France Orders Army Mobilized" | p. 1 |
| 5 August, "War Ends Paris Work and Play" | p. 2 |
| 7 August, "Meat and Vegetable Prices..." | p. 3 |
| 7 August, "Gay Paris Hears the Curfew Bell..." | p. 4 |
| 19 August, "Lid is Tight on Paris" | p. 5 |
| 23 August, "Paris Provides Work" | p. 6 |
| 24 August, "Woman Writer in Paris..." | p. 6 |
| 26 August, "Paris Women Doing the Work..." | p. 7 |
| 27 August, "Paris Prays in Notre Dame..." | p. 9 |
| 31 August, "People ... Victims of Censorship" | p. 10 |
| 3 September, "Government ... Moving to Bordeaux" | p. 12 |
| 4 September, "Paris Quiet and Orderly..." | p. 12 |
| 6 September, "Paris Forts..." | p. 13 |
| 6 September, "Suburbs of Paris a Vast Ruin" | p. 14 |
| 16 September, "War Zone Geography" | p. 15 |
| 20 September, "France ... Is Fighting for Life..." | p. 17 |
| 7 October, "France Settles Down..." | p. 18 |
| 12 October, "Paris Gay Garb Gone..." | p. 19 |
| 13 October, "All Parisiennes Knitting" | p. 20 |
| 21 October, "Paris Quiet as Population Waits..." | p. 21 |
| 24 October, "Women Spies Shot..." | p. 21 |
| 16 November, "Paris Mourning..." | p. 22 |
| 19 November, "Les Parents a la Guerre" | p. 23 |
| 22 November, "The Saddest Day France Ever Had" | p. 25 |
| 10 December, "Paris Again Capital" | p. 26 |
| 13 December, "Regiment of Cut-Throats..." | p. 26 |
| 6 December, "The Greatest Sculptor of Our Time" | p. 27 |
| 13 December, "Songs They Sing in Paris..." | p. 28 |
| 1915 | |
| 7 February, "Paris after the War Storm" | p. 31 |
| 14 February, "A Dramatic Scene ... at Opera Comique" | p. 33 |
| 5 April, "French Civilians Recount Horrors" | p. 35 |
| 18 April, "French Army is Gaining..." | p. 37 |
| 2 May, "Every French Family Has Kin at Front" | p. 38 |
| 9 May, "Effects of the War" | p. 39 |
| 15 May, "Paris Trembles. Fears Epidemic..." | p. 40 |
| 16 May, "Nightly Air Raids..." | p. 41 |
| 11 July, "The Face of Paris" | p. 42 |
| 11 July, "When the Great German Army..." | p. 44 |
| 21 July, "Meat Prices Soar..." | p. 46 |
| 1 August, "The Graves" | p. 47 |
| 15, 22 August, "Bombarded Reims/ Reims Again" | p. 48 |
| 19 September, "France Bravely Faces ... Sacrifice..." | p. 50 |
| 3 October, "Seeks Our Aid for French Artists..." | p. 51 |
| 31 October, "France, Sobered, Consecrated to War to End" | p. 53 |
| 28 November, "War Prefect of Police Proud..." | p. 55 |
| 5 December, "Vouziers' Truce with Invaders" | p. 56 |
| 10 December, "Paris Opera Open after 18 Months" | p. 57 |
| 12 December, "Arras an Unburied City" | p. 58 |
| 25 December, "War and Hate Fill the Hearts of France" | p. 59 |
| 1916 | |
| 6 February, "French War Orphans To Be Made Good Citizens" | p. 61 |
| 6 February, "Cathedral at Reims Scene of Desolation" | p. 63 |
| 12 February, "French Youths Happy as They Leave for War" | p. 64 |
| 13 February, "Loti Tells Gas Horrors" | p. 65 |
| 17 February, "The New European Desert" | p. 67 |
| 20 February, "The Kaiser's Throat" | p. 67 |
| 24 February, "Citizens ... Not Alarmed by [Zeppelin] Raids" | p. 68 |
| 5 March, "A Zeppelin Raid" | p. 70 |
| 1 April, "War in Parisian 'Revues'" | p. 71 |
| 13 April, "Les Femmes Francaises" | p. 71 |
| 1 July, "French Farmers" | p. 73 |
| 23 July, "French Fields of Calm and Quiet" | p. 74 |
| 12 August, "How Paris Kept National Holiday" | p. 74 |
| 17 August, "French Forced to Quit Homes" | p. 76 |
| 20 August, "War May Eliminate French Money Marriage" | p. 78 |
| 17 September, "War Wiping Out Old Religious Feud in France" | p. 79 |
| 19 October, "The Woman and War" | p. 80 |
| 12 November, "Cambrai Calmly Sips Absinthe..." | p. 81 |
| 12 November, "A Visit to One of France's Aircraft Factories" | p. 82 |
| 16 November, "French Prepare for Lean Days" | p. 84 |
| 20 November, "Rheims Cathedral Liable to Collapse" | p. 85 |
| 21 November, "France Copies German System in Trade Plans" | p. 86 |
| 24 November, "White Plague Is Called ... Greatest Peril" | p. 88 |
| 9 December, "Cripples Make of 'Gay Paree' a Sorrowing City" | p. 89 |
| 17 December, "American Work in France" | p. 90 |
| 29 December, "France Censors Mail to Guard Its Own" | p. 91 |
| 31 December, "Within the Lines" | p. 92 |
| 1917 | |
| 25 January, "Ravished by Germans, She May Kill Child" | p. 94 |
| 30 January, "Does Miracles with Soldiers" | p. 95 |
| 17 February, "France Lists Every Man for Service" | p. 96 |
| 17 February, "Gay Paree Now War Worn City" | p. 97 |
| 18 February, "France in Grip of Coal Famine" | p. 98 |
| 18 February, "Stricter Food Control Promised in France" | p. 99 |
| 19 February, "French Depend on 'Systeme D' to Win the War" | p. 102 |
| 11 March, "France Prepares for Tourists" | p. 102 |
| 18, 25 March, "After the Peace/The Helping Hand" | p. 104 |
| 17 June, "Prices in Paris" | p. 105 |
| 3 July, "France's Rail Problems" | p. 106 |
| 15 July, "The Mothers" | p. 107 |
| 21 July, "France Must Eat War Bread or None" | p. 109 |
| 20 August, "Babes of France..." | p. 110 |
| 2 September, "War Cripples Everywhere at Work in Paris" | p. 111 |
| 3 September, "France Mother to Its Orphans under New Law" | p. 113 |
| 16 September, "France Turns to Bread Card to Save Wheat" | p. 114 |
| 7 October, "Slang and Slogans of War in France" | p. 114 |
| 28 October, "France Will Adopt Her 'Boche Babies'" | p. 116 |
| 13 November, "Paris Worries over Shortage of Sugar Crop" | p. 118 |
| 25 November, "Food Crops in France Worst in Fifty Years" | p. 119 |
| 18 November, "Clemenceau Again Premier of France" | p. 120 |
| 30 November, "A Desert of Bricks and Dust" | p. 123 |
| 30 December, "French Pluck" | p. 123 |
| 1918 | |
| 7 January, "Food Economy Sweeps France" | p. 126 |
| 18 January, "Quaint Ypres in the Middle Ages and Now" | p. 126 |
| 25 January, "Price Fixing in France Difficult" | p. 128 |
| 1 February, "Les Mesfaits Des Avions" | p. 129 |
| 22 February, "A Defeatist Organization" | p. 130 |
| 28 February, "The Price France Pays" | p. 131 |
| 6 March, "Paris Will Lose All Luxuries" | p. 132 |
| 11 March, "France Placed on Bread Rations" | p. 133 |
| 22 March, "Paris Tastily [sic] Guards Itself" | p. 134 |
| 25 March, "Paris Shelled by ... Gun 76 Miles Away" | p. 135 |
| 30 March, "Injuries in Church" | p. 135 |
| 1 April, "Sheer Murder at Long Range" | p. 136 |
| 17 April, "Bombing Paris Now a Habit" | p. 137 |
| 4 May, "L'Affaire Brion Tried in Paris" | p. 138 |
| 6 May, "France Bears Awful Burden: Shall Her Children Die?" | p. 139 |
| 14 June, "Paris Consumes 300 Horses a Day" | p. 140 |
| 23 June, "A Changed World for the Women of France" | p. 141 |
| 4 July, "Big Share of France's Work Is Now Done by Women" | p. 144 |
| 7 July, "People, Not Things, Count in France" | p. 146 |
| 15 July, "France Cheers Allied Heroes," | p. 148 |
| 21 July, "Pitiful Incidents of French Life" | p. 149 |
| 29 July, "French People Choke Roads" | p. 150 |
| 2 September, "Business Revives in the Paris Shops" | p. 151 |
| 12 September, "French Prices Rise Skyward" | p. 153 |
| 7 October, "Unconditional Surrender Trend of Paris Journals" | p. 154 |
| 11 October, "France Will Never Forget" | p. 155 |
| 16 October, "Lens Coal Mines Ruined for Years" | p. 156 |
| 22 October, "Paris Rejoices at News Coast Has Been Freed" | p. 156 |
| 12 November, "Paris Gives Rein to Enthusiasm" | p. 157 |
| 29 December, "Women in France Seek New Status" | p. 158 |
| Epilogue | p. 162 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 168 |
| Appendix | p. 174 |
| Subject Index | p. 181 |
| Geographical Index | p. 184 |
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