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Author: Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802137876 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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Now in paperback, a distinguished historian recounts the myriad tragic blunders and the unprecedented, unfathomable bloodshed that was World War I in a fresh and revealing look at the war and its impact on the 20th century. Maps. of photos.
Author: Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802137876 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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Now in paperback, a distinguished historian recounts the myriad tragic blunders and the unprecedented, unfathomable bloodshed that was World War I in a fresh and revealing look at the war and its impact on the 20th century. Maps. of photos.
Author: Ashley Ekins Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458752305 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 570
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1918: Year of Victory, convened by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in November 2008 to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the end of the Great War. Ashley Ekins (volume editor) is Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Author: Laurence V Keegan Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 0850524393 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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Europe went to war in 1914 tot he sound of brass bands and cheering crowds; in every country, civilians and soldiers alike believed that the war would be won by Christmas time. By the time Christmas arrived, however, it became clear that this, indeed, would be a much longer war. In the months and years which followed, combatants perused the war with boundless intensity in order to emerge victorious. This was partially true of Germany where publicists pictured it as a life-and-death struggle for the survival of a nation surrounded by hostile enemies No nation involve din the conflict so completely mobilised its population, its resources, its energies into such a single-minded pursuit of the war. This unusual and incisive account chronicles Germany in World War 1 from the viewpoint of the solders who fought the battles and civilians who endured the ever increasing trauma of escalating casualties, widespread shortages, and declining conditions of living. It relates how Germany attempted to cope with a massive blockade, the scope of which had not been seen since the days of Napoleon, thus forcing German authorities to adopt a series of sometimes brutal measures, all of which rested on the underlying premise that victory, a clear-cut victory, could be the only acceptable option. Victory Must Be Ours explores the Germany which in 1914 took a prestigious leap into darkness. It explores the ingredients which make the Great War perhaps the single most fateful event in the Twentieth Century, setting in motion the most bloody conflict of all time, World War II.
Author: David Stevenson Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674063198 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 747
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With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper-an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to its ominous end-the Allies' incomplete victory, and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later. In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict's endgame, David Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 from a truly international perspective, examining the positions and perspectives of combatants on both sides, as well as the impact of the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close attention to America's effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front politics. Alongside military and political developments, he adds new information about the crucial role of economics and logistics. The Allies' eventual success, Stevenson shows, was due to new organizational methods of managing men and materiel and to increased combat effectiveness resulting partly from technological innovation. These factors, combined with Germany's disastrous military offensive in spring 1918, ensured an Allied victory-but not a conclusive German defeat.
Author: Tim Cook Publisher: Souvenir Catalogue ISBN: 9780660252544 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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"The Hundred Days campaign (August 8 to November 11, 1918) contributed decisively to ending the First World War, and the Canadian Corps played a key role in the Allied victory. One hundred years after the end of the war, Tim Cook and Jack Granatstein delve into this series of battles in a visual and evocative souvenir catalogue that weaves artworks, artifacts and historical photos together with the powerful stories of Canadians who participated in this costly combat."--
Author: W. Bruce Lincoln Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 9780306809095 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 640
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Shortly after withdrawing from World War I, Russia descended into a bitter civil war unprecedented for its savagery: epidemics, battles, mass executions, forced labor, and famine claimed millions of lives. From 1918 to 1921, through great cities and tiny villages, across untouched forests and vast frozen wasteland, the Bolshevik "Reds" fought the anti-Communist Whites and their Allies (fourteen foreign countries contributed weapons, money, and troops—including 20,000 American soldiers). This landmark history re-creates the epic conflict that transformed Russia from the Empire of the Tsars into the Empire of the Commissars, while never losing sight of the horrifying human cost.
Author: Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher: ISBN: 9780297841241 Category : World War, 1914-1918 Languages : en Pages : 368
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Drawing on cabinet papers, memoirs, official histories and diaries to look at the war from the top, this book examines the background to the Allied triumph and its aftermath. The author also uses letters and reminiscences from officers and men to heighten the drama of neglected campaigns with almost forgotten incidents: prowling wolves around British bivoacs in the Vardar blizzard; weary troops marhcing towards Baghdad, to sleep where they halted; the cooks who declined the surrender of Jerusalem; and sandbags stuffed with seaweed in order to protect the treasures of Venice.
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