The Sword and the Sceptre, Vol. 2 - The European Powers and the Wilhelmenian Empire 1890-1914 - 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 Sword and the Sceptre, Vol. 2 - The European Powers and the Wilhelmenian Empire 1890-1914 write by Gerhard Ritter. This book was released on 1972. The Sword and the Sceptre, Vol. 2 - The European Powers and the Wilhelmenian Empire 1890-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World War)
The War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World 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 War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World War) write by Paul Kennedy. This book was released on 2014-04-24. The War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World War) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in particular and of militarism in general, are a key focus of attention. Did the military wrest control from the civilians? Were the leaders of Europe eager for a conflict? What military commitments were made between the various alliance blocks? These questions are examined in detail here in eleven essays by distinguished historians and the editor’s introduction provides a focus and draws out the comparative approach to the history of military policies and war plans of the great powers.
The Pity of War
The Pity of 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 Pity of War write by Niall Ferguson. This book was released on 2008-08-05. The Pity of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces. That the war was wicked, horrific, and inhuman is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. Indeed, more British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with little reluctance and with some enthusiasm. For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper or more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.
A Companion to World War I
A Companion to World War I - 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 Companion to World War I write by John Horne. This book was released on 2012-01-30. A Companion to World War I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history. Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war's legacy Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE
Arms and the State
Arms and the State - 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 Arms and the State write by Marshall J. Bastable. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Arms and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its origins in 1854 to 1914. It focuses on the role of Sir William G. Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his modest mechanical engineering business into a vast industrial enterprise which invented, developed, manufactured and sold heavy guns and warships throughout the world. Arms and the State reconstructs the global arms trade as it follows Armstrong's companies selling the latest weapons to both sides in the American Civil War, Egypt, Turkey and Italy in the 1860s, to China, Chile and Japan in the 1870s and 1880s, and became Britain's leading armaments company in the age of the naval arms races that preceded the First World War. In so doing, it discusses varied topics such as the social and political nature of technological innovation, the quality of Britain's late-Victorian entrepreneurs, and the impact of armaments on British politics, defence policies, the international arms trade and imperialism. Arms and the State situates the history of the company in its technological, political and international contexts, with particular attention given to the role of British Parliamentary politics and the inner workings of the War Office and Admiralty bureaucracies. The central narrative is Armstrong's role in the militarization of technology in the 1850s, the commercialization of the armaments trade on a global scale in the 1860s and 1870s, and the emergence of the British military-industrial state in the 1880s and 1890s. Arms and the State provides a history of the people, the technology and the business of the Arms trade. It is a fascinating story of the domestic politics, the foreign policy and strategic calculations, the manipulation of the press and the bureaucratic intrigues that lay behind the invention, production and proliferation of the first weapons of mass destruction.
