The Making of the First World War
ISBN: 9780300162028 | 0300162022
Format: Trade BookPublisher: Yale University Press
Pub. Date: 1/8/2013
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An original and spellbinding reinterpretation of the most significant events of the Great War
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of th... MORE
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of th... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Silent Conqueror | p. 12 |
| The Widening of the War | p. 31 |
| The Making of a Nation | p. 50 |
| The Man and the Hour | p. 68 |
| The Power of Image | p. 87 |
| The Death of Kings | p. 106 |
| The Ungentlemanly Weapo... MORE | p. 125 |
| The Path to Revolution | p. 144 |
| The Shadow of the Bomber | p. 162 |
| The Promised Land | p. 181 |
| The Moral Imperative | p. 200 |
| The Last Throw | p. 219 |
| Conclusion | p. 238 |
| Notes | p. 241 |
| Further Reading | p. 250 |
| Index | p. 257 |
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Ian Beckett is Visiting Professor of History at the University of Kent. A highly regarded specialist on the First World War, his many books include Ypres: The First Battle, 1914 and The Great War, 1914–1918. He lives in Cornwall, UK.
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