Examines the historical and cultural events preceding, during, and following the First World War.
Record details
ISBN:0582315565
Physical Description:print vi 155 p. : ill. maps ; 22 cm.
Publisher:New York : Longman, c1998.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. War Known and War Imagined -- The Civilian View of War -- The Professional View of War -- War Plans -- The Naval Race -- 2. 1914: OOPS! The Plans Fail -- The Battles of the Frontiers -- The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) up to Mons -- The End of the Schlieffen Plan -- The Marne -- First Ypres -- Eastern Front: Tannenberg to Lemberg -- 3. Taking Stock -- The Soldiers -- The Politicians -- Civilians and the Suspension of Partisan Politics -- War Aims -- 4. The War in 1915: Badly Planned Disasters -- Russian Poland, Second Ypres -- The Trench System and the Code of the Front -- Neuve Chapelle, Champagne, Arrois and Loos -- Gallipoli -- 5. The Home Fronts -- Britain: DORA and Conscription -- Propaganda and Censorship -- War Economics -- German, War Aims and War Means: Submarines -- 6. 1916: Attrition and the Well-Planned Disasters -- Jutland -- Verdun -- The Somme -- 7. Organizing for Victory -- Ludendorff Takes Charge in Germany -- Unlimited Submarine Warfare -- Offering Peace -- Lloyd George Knocks Out Peace -- The Russian Revolutions -- The Fall of Bethmann Hollweg: July 1917 -- 8. Technology and Tactics -- A Technological Solution? The Air War and Tanks -- A Tactical Solution? Arras, Vimy and the Nivelle Offensive -- 9. 1917: 'Mere Unspeakable Suffering' -- The Nivelle Offensive and the Mutiny: April to June, 1917 -- Third Ypres (Passchendaele) -- 10. The Bitter End: 1918 -- Ludendorff Rolls the Iron Dice in the West -- The Spring Offensive: Winning the Way to Defeat -- The Allies Counter-Attack -- The Collapse of Ludendorff -- Numbers -- So what?
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