A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 write by C.R.M.F. Cruttwell. This book was released on 2019-09-03. A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved. Scrupulously fair, praising and blaming friend and enemy as circumstances demand, this has become established as the classic account of the first world-wide war.
The First World War, 1914-1918
The First World War, 1914-1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First World War, 1914-1918 write by Gerd Hardach. This book was released on 1981. The First World War, 1914-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Great War
The Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great War write by Ian F. W. Beckett. This book was released on 2014-01-14. The Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.
The Great Class War 1914-1918
The Great Class War 1914-1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Class War 1914-1918 write by Jacques R. Pauwels. This book was released on 2016-04-06. The Great Class War 1914-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders. For European statesmen, a large-scale war could give their countries new colonial territories, important to growing capitalist economies. For the wealthy and ruling classes, war served as an antidote to social revolution, encouraging workers to exchange socialism's focus on international solidarity for nationalism's intense militarism. And for the working classes themselves, war provided an outlet for years of systemic militarization -- quite simply, they were hardwired to pick up arms, and to do so eagerly. To Pauwels, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914 -- traditionally upheld by historians as the spark that lit the powder keg -- was not a sufficient cause for war but rather a pretext seized upon by European powers to unleash the kind of war they had desired. But what Europe's elite did not expect or predict was some of the war's outcomes: social revolution and Communist Party rule in Russia, plus a wave of political and social democratic reforms in Western Europe that would have far-reaching consequences. Reflecting his broad research in the voluminous recent literature about the First World War by historians in the leading countries involved in the conflict, Jacques Pauwels has produced an account that challenges readers to rethink their understanding of this key event of twentieth century world history.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopaedia Britannica write by Hugh Chisholm. This book was released on 1910. Encyclopaedia Britannica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
