The Great War: 1914-1918

ISBN-13: 9781405812528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 856 str.

Ian F W Beckett

Opis

Starting with the context and origins of the war, this work questions common assumptions about the nature of the First World War and how it has been consistently and, wrongly, perceived as an exercise in futility. It also covers the course of the conflict and its consequences for states, societies, and individuals.

Spis treści

CONTENTS:

1. Another Country

2. Guns in August

3. Over by Christmas

4. Widening Horizons

5. Westerners and Easterners

6. New Ways of War

7. Nations in Arms

8. War and the State

9. War and Society

10. War, Politics and Revolution

11. Victors and Vanquished

12. Wastelands?

O autorze

Ian Beckett is an internationally renowned specialist on the Great War. His publications include such acclaimed titles as Ypres : The Last Battle , 1914 (2004). The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (2003), and A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (with Keith Simpson) (1985)