The First World War
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- ISBN: 0582315565
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vi 155 p. : ill. maps ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New York : Longman, c1998.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. War Known and War Imagined -- The Civilian View of War -- The Professional View of War -- War Plans -- The Naval Race -- 2. 1914: OOPS! The Plans Fail -- The Battles of the Frontiers -- The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) up to Mons -- The End of the Schlieffen Plan -- The Marne -- First Ypres -- Eastern Front: Tannenberg to Lemberg -- 3. Taking Stock -- The Soldiers -- The Politicians -- Civilians and the Suspension of Partisan Politics -- War Aims -- 4. The War in 1915: Badly Planned Disasters -- Russian Poland, Second Ypres -- The Trench System and the Code of the Front -- Neuve Chapelle, Champagne, Arrois and Loos -- Gallipoli -- 5. The Home Fronts -- Britain: DORA and Conscription -- Propaganda and Censorship -- War Economics -- German, War Aims and War Means: Submarines -- 6. 1916: Attrition and the Well-Planned Disasters -- Jutland -- Verdun -- The Somme -- 7. Organizing for Victory -- Ludendorff Takes Charge in Germany -- Unlimited Submarine Warfare -- Offering Peace -- Lloyd George Knocks Out Peace -- The Russian Revolutions -- The Fall of Bethmann Hollweg: July 1917 -- 8. Technology and Tactics -- A Technological Solution? The Air War and Tanks -- A Tactical Solution? Arras, Vimy and the Nivelle Offensive -- 9. 1917: 'Mere Unspeakable Suffering' -- The Nivelle Offensive and the Mutiny: April to June, 1917 -- Third Ypres (Passchendaele) -- 10. The Bitter End: 1918 -- Ludendorff Rolls the Iron Dice in the West -- The Spring Offensive: Winning the Way to Defeat -- The Allies Counter-Attack -- The Collapse of Ludendorff -- Numbers -- So what? |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Lansdowne Library | D 522.7 R55 1998 (Text) | 26040002901870 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |