The Oxford illustrated history of the First World War / edited by Hew Strachan. World War I. World War 1 World War One First World War Illustrated history of the First World War.

Collection type	Library
Author	Strachan, Hew, editor.;
Call Number	940.3 O98
Document type	Monograph
Year	2014.
Pagination	xiii, 379 pages, 12 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some
Publisher	Oxford University Press,
Note	Includes index. Bibliography: pages 341-362. The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The Oxford History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of t he most distinguished historians of the conflict, in an account that matches the scale of the events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals, they cha rt the course of the war and assess its profound political and human consequences.
Place made	Oxford, U.K. :

Abstract

Chapter 1.The Origins of the War / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- 2.The Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914--1917 / Holger Afflerbach -- 3.Manoeuvre Warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914--1915 / Dennis E. Showalter -- 4.The Strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914--1917 / David French -- 5.The Balkans, 1914--1918 / Richard J. Crampton -- 6.Turkey's War / Ulrich Trumpener -- 7.The War in Africa / David Killingray -- 8.The War at Sea / Paul G. Halpern -- 9.Economic Warfare / B. J. C. Mckercher -- 10.Econ omic Mobilization: Money, Munitions, and Machines / Hew Strachan -- 11.The Role of Women in the War / Susan R. Grayzel -- 12.The Challenge to Liberalism: The Politics of the Home Fronts / John Turner -- 13.Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916--1917 / Tre vor Wilson -- 14.Mutinies and Military Morale / Alexander Watson -- 15.War Aims and Peace Negotiations / David Stevenson -- 16.Propaganda and the Mobilization of Consent / J. M. Winter -- 17.Socialism, Peace, and Revolution, 1917--1918 / John Horne -- 18. The Entry of the USA into the War and its Effects / David Trask -- 19.The German Victories, 1917--1918 / Holger H. Herwig -- 20.The War in the Air / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- 21.The Allied Victories, 1918 / Tim Travers -- 22.The Peace Settlement / Zara Stein er -- 23.No End to War / Robert Gerwarth -- 24.Memory and the Great War / Modris Eksteins.