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A History of the Great War World War One and the International Crisis of the Early Twentieth Ce...

ISBN: 9780195181944 | 0195181948
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/10/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Known as the "Great War," World War One was one of history's greatest tragedies. It eventually dragged most of Europe and the world into its bloody quagmire, inflicting more than four years of suffering, misery, maiming, and death on the belligerent nations. Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses, A History of the Great War: World War One and the International Crisis of the Early Twentieth Century is a brief yet comprehensive study that distinguishes itself from other textbooks in significant ways. Providing broader coverage than most tex... MORE
Mapsp. vii
Prefacep. ix
Into The Abyss 1871-1914p. 1
The Long Descentp. 3
From Peace to Warp. 21
The Abyss 1914-1918p. 45
The Opening Campaigns, 1914p. 47
The Wider War, 1914-1915p. 87
The Stalemate in Europe, 1915p. 119
The Wider War, 1915-1916p. 160
Tipping Points in Europ... MOREp. 198
War-Weariness and the Question of Peace in Europe, 1917p. 238
War, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Middle East and Russia, 1916-1918p. 283
The Last Furious Year of the Great War, 1917-1918p. 319
Slowly Out of The Abyss 1918-1926p. 365
The Violent Aftermath of the Great War in Europe, 1918-1926p. 367
The Problematic Legacy of the Great War in the Wider World, 1918-1926p. 392
Epilogue: Bereavement, Economic Collapse, and the Climate for Warp. 415
Indexp. 425
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Eric Dorn Brose is Professor of History at Drexel University. He is the author of A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (OUP, 2004), The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918 (OUP, 2001), and Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914 (1998).


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