The First World War: Volume I: To ArmsOUP 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 |
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