| Description |
xviii, 375 p. : maps ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
Subtitle from cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index. |
| Contents |
The great illusion, 1910 / Sir Norman Angell -- Germany and the next war / General Friedrich von Bernhardi -- The "Willy-Nicky" telegrams / Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia -- The circus rider of Europe / Dennis Showalter -- The army and the nationalist revival / Douglas Porch -- The good soldier Schweik / Jaroslav Hasek -- Her privates we / Frederic Manning -- A soldier's notebook / Alexei Brusilov -- Officer-man relations: the other ranks' perspective / G. D. Sheffield -- "War enthusiasm": volunteers, departing soldiers, and victory celebrations / Jeffrey Verhey -- Foch's general counteroffensive, part I: 26 September to 23 October, 1918 / David Trask -- |
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The destruction of Louvain / Leon van der Essen -- The historic first of July / Philip Gibbs -- Between mutiny and obedience / Leonard V. Smith -- The live and let live system / Tony Ashworth -- Letters from a lost generation / Vera Brittain -- An English wife in Berlin / Evelyn Blucher -- Home fires burning / Belinda J. Davis -- The politics of race / Jennifer D. Keene -- The fourteen points / President Woodrow Wilson -- Views on a prospective armistice / Ferdinand Foch and John Pershing -- The military collapse of the German Empire / Wilhelm Deist -- Diggers and doughboys: Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918 / Dale Blair -- Peacemaking, 1919 / Harold Nicolson -- British diplomacy: the Hussein-McMahon letters / Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Cairo, to Hussein Ibn Ali, the Sherif of Mecca -- A peace to end all peace / David Fromkin -- The kings depart / Richard Watt. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Neiberg, Michael S.
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| Added Title |
World War One reader |
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World War 1 reader |
| ISBN |
0814758339 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0814758320 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780814758328 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780814758335 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2448268 |
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YDXCP 2448270 |
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AU@ 000041523942 |
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