The World War I Reader /

The World War I Reader /

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Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. Its enormous impact on the world in terms of international diplomacy and politics, and the ways in which future military engagements would evolve, be fought, and ultim...

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Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Ali, Hussein Ibn (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Angell, Norman (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Ashworth, Tony (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Bernhardi, Friedrich von (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Blair, Dale (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Blücher, Evelyn (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Brittain, Vera (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Brusilov, Alexei (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Davis, Belinda J (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Deist, Wilhelm (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Essen, Leon van der (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Foch, Ferdinand (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Fromkin, David (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Gibbs, Phil (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Hašek, Jaroslav (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Keene, Jennifer D. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Manning, Frederic (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), McMahon, Henry, Sir, 1862-1949 (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Neiberg, Michael S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Nicolson, Harold (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Pershing, John (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Porch, Douglas (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Sheffield, Gary, 1961- (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Showalter, Dennis (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Smith, Leonard V. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Trask, David (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Verhey, Jeffrey (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Watt, Richard (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Wilson, Woodrow (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Sources
World War, 1914-1918
HISTORY / Military / World War I
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Timeline of Major Events
  • Brief Biographies of Important Figures Mentioned in the Text
  • Introduction
  • One: Causes
  • Primary
  • 1.1 The Great Illusion, 1910
  • 1.2 Germany and the Next War
  • 1.3 The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams
  • Secondary
  • 1.4 The Circus Rider of Europe
  • 1.5 The Army and the Nationalist Revival
  • Two: Soldiers
  • Primary
  • 2.1 The Good Soldier Schweik
  • 2.2 Her Privates We
  • 2.3 A Soldier's Notebook
  • Secondary
  • 2.4 Officer-Man Relations: The Other Ranks' Perspective
  • 2.5 "War Enthusiasm": Volunteers, Departing Soldiers, and Victory Celebrations
  • 2.6 Foch's General Counteroffensive, Part I: 26 September to 23 October 1918
  • Three: Armageddon
  • Primary
  • 3.1 The Destruction of Louvain
  • 3.2 The Historic First of July
  • Secondary
  • 3.3 Between Mutiny and Obedience
  • 3.4 The Live and Let Live System
  • Four: Home Fronts
  • Primary
  • 4.1 Letters from a Lost Generation
  • 4.2 An English Wife in Berlin
  • Secondary
  • 4.3 Home Fires Burning
  • 4.4 The Politics of Race
  • Five: The End of the War
  • Primary
  • 5.1 The Fourteen Points
  • 5.2 Views on a Prospective Armistice
  • Secondary
  • 5.3 The Military Collapse of the German Empire
  • 5.4 Diggers and Doughboys Australian and American Troop Interaction on the Western Front, 1918
  • Six: Peace
  • Primary
  • 6.1 Peacemaking, 1919
  • 6.2 British Diplomacy: The Hussein-McMahon Letters
  • Secondary
  • 6.3 A Peace to End All Peace
  • 6.4 The Kings Depart
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the Editor

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