| Description |
xii, 356 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Hew Strachan -- 1. The Origins of the War / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- 2. The Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914-1917 / L. L. Farrar, Jr. -- 3. Manoeuvre Warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914-1915 / D. E. Showalter -- 4. The Strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914-1917 / David French -- 5. The Balkans, 1914-1918 / R. J. Crampton -- 6. Turkey's War / Ulrich Trumpener -- 7. The War in Africa / David Killingray -- 8. The War at Sea / Paul G. Halpern -- 9. Economic Warfare / B. J. C. McKercher -- 10. Economic Mobilization: Money, Munitions, and Machines / Hew Strachan -- 11. Women, War, and Work / Gail Braybon -- 12. The Challenge to Liberalism: The Politics of the Home Fronts / J. A. Turner -- 13. Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916-1917 / Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson -- 14. Mutinies and Military Morale / David Englander -- 15. War Aims and Peace Negotiations / David Stevenson -- 16. Propaganda and the Mobilization of Consent / J. M. Winter |
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17. Socialism, Peace, and Revolution, 1917-1918 / John Horne -- 18. The Entry of the USA into the War and its Effects / David Trask -- 19. The German Victories, 1917-1918 / Holger H. Herwig -- 20. The War in the Air / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- 21. The Allied Victories, 1918 / Tim Travers -- 22. The Peace Settlement / Zara Steiner -- 23. Memory and the Great War / Modris Eksteins |
| Summary |
In this extensively illustrated book, an international team of experts explores the war in all its different aspects. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals, the course of the war is charted and its political and human consequences assessed. Chapters on economic mobilization, the impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider social context of fighting which took place at sea and in the air and which ranged on land from the Flanders trenches to the Balkan mountains and the deserts of the Middle East |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918.
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| Author |
Strachan, Hew.
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| LC no. |
97044997 |
| ISBN |
0198206143 |
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