Book Description
- Primary sources- 24 full-color maps in each title- Profiles of military and political leaders
Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780817240578
- Primary sources- 24 full-color maps in each title- Profiles of military and political leaders
Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780237525682
Examines the backdrop of rivalry among world powers, the events that immediately preceded the first World War, the effects of the war itself, and its long term consequences. Suggested level: secondary.
Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0465038867
When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events. As acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been for a small group of statesmen who, in the month after the assassination, plotted to use Ferdinand's murder as the trigger for a long-awaited showdown in Europe. The primary culprits, moreover, have long escaped blame. While most accounts of the war's outbreak place the bulk of responsibility on German and Austro-Hungarian militarism, McMeekin draws on surprising new evidence from archives across Europe to show that the worst offenders were actually to be found in Russia and France, whose belligerence and duplicity ensured that war was inevitable. Whether they plotted for war or rode the whirlwind nearly blind, each of the men involved -- from Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold von Berchtold and German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov and French president Raymond Poincaré- sought to capitalize on the fallout from Ferdinand's murder, unwittingly leading Europe toward the greatest cataclysm it had ever seen. A revolutionary account of the genesis of World War I, July 1914 tells the gripping story of Europe's countdown to war from the bloody opening act on June 28th to Britain's final plunge on August 4th, showing how a single month -- and a handful of men -- changed the course of the twentieth century.
Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139448358
This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.
Author : Vic Guest
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 1990
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9780333502273
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
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Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493031937
Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany’s Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his answer. “The American infantry,” he said. He made it even more specific, telling the reporter that the final death blow for Germany was delivered by “the American infantry in the Argonne.” The British and the French often denigrated the American contribution to the war, but they had begged for US entry into the conflict, and their stake in America’s victory was, if anything, even greater than that of the United States itself. But How America Won WWI will not litigate the points of view of Britain and France. The book will accepts as gospel the assessment of the top German leader whose job it had been to oppose the Americans directly - that the American infantry won the war - and this book will tell how the American infantry did it.
Author : John Milton Cooper
Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1972
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9780812902525
Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0857453106
The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability."