The Persisting Factors of the Great War
Author : Harry Grant Plum
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Release : 1923
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Author : Harry Grant Plum
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File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Timothy S. Mallard
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Military chaplains
ISBN : 9780996824934
"The phrase military ethics is sometimes regarded as a contradiction in terms. To some, the idea of ethics seems out of touch with modern realities and sensibilities. "How can an external moral standard dictate one's actions?" some might ask. Ethics can therefore bring up memories of bygone eras that seem irrelevant. Coupled with the qualifier military, ethics can seem even more puzzling. Ethics is not merely a concern for past eras, but is increasingly relevant in an age of rapid technological and societal development. From its beginning, our nation's military leaders have viewed ethics as imperative to the task of warfighting. This is a refrain echoed by contributions to this book who address a range of issues concerning political actors, technological capabilities, and societal shifts of the past and the present. And in commemorating the centenary of World War I, it is appropriate to consider the ethics of warfare. This book helpfully relates lessons from the past to the major ethical issues of modern warfare. By providing diverse reflections on the history of military ethics and challenges of contemporary and future warfare, this book serves as a repository of meaningful material for a new generation of warfighters to develop their own faculties of ethical judgment"--
Author : Chicago Public Library
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Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1927
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Page : 798 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic journals
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Page : 992 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Best books
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Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Charities
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 1923
Category : History
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Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,14 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 : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 078672529X
From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces. That the war was wicked, horrific, and inhuman is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. Indeed, more British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with little reluctance and with some enthusiasm. For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper or more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.
Author : Harry Grant Plum
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Europe
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