The First World War: Volume I: To Arms

Voorkant
OUP Oxford, 6 feb 2003 - 1248 pagina's
This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. In Hew Strachan's authoritative and readable history these fresh perspectives are incorporated with the military and strategicnarrative. The result is an account that breaks the bounds of national preoccupations to become both global and comparative.To Arms, the first of three volumes in this magisterial study, examines not only the causes of the war and its opening clashes on land and sea, but also the ideas that underpinned it, and the motivations of the people who supported it. It provides full and pioneering accounts of the war's finances, of the war in Africa, and of the Central Powers' bid to widen the war outside Europe.
 

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1 THE ORIGINS OF THE WAR
1
2 WILLINGLY TO WAR
103
3 THE WESTERN FRONT IN 1914
163
4 THE EASTERN FRONT IN 1914
281
5 THE WAR IN NORTHERN WATERS 19141915
374
6 WAR IN THE PACIFIC 19141917
441
COLONIAL CONFLICT IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA
495
8 TURKEYS ENTRY
644
9 GERMANYS GLOBAL STRATEGY
694
10 FINANCING THE WAR
815
11 INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION
993
THE IDEAS OF 1914
1114
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1140
INDEX
1191
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Hew Strachan was born in in Edinburgh, Scotland on September 1, 1949. He is a historian who specializes in the British military and in World War I. He has written numerous books including The First World War, The First World War in Africa, The Politics of the British Army, and Carl von Clausewitz's On War. He received the Westminster Medal for The Politics of the British Army. He received the Pritzker Military Museum and Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in 2016.

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