World War I companion /
World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent. It was a conflict unparalleled in its scale, which in turn f...
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| Summary: | World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent. It was a conflict unparalleled in its scale, which in turn fueled devastatingly rapid developments in military technology, technique and innovation as the belligerent powers sought to break the deadlock on the Western Front and elsewhere. In the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict, 14 renowned historians from around the world examine some of the key aspects of the war, providing a wide-ranging analysis of the whole conflict beyond but including the stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front. |
| Physical Description: | 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical (pages 254-262) and index. |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Osprey Publishing,
2013.
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| ISBN: | 9781782001881 1782001883 |
Table of Contents:
- Commanding through Armageddon : Allied senior leadership in World War I / Michael S. Neiberg
- German operational thinking in World War I / Thorsten Loch
- The expansion of the British Army during World War I / Bruce Gudmundsson
- World War I aviation : from reconnaissance to the modern air campaign / James S. Corum
- The global war at sea, 1914-18 / Michael Epkenhans
- The French Army between tradition and modernity : weaponry, tactics, and soldiers 1914-18 / François Cochet
- German tactical doctrine and defensive battle on the Western Front / Matthias Strohn
- The rollercoaster of Austria-Hungary's World War I experience / Lothar Höbelt
- The Imperial Russian Army and the Eastern Front in World War I, 1914-17 / Stephen Walsh
- ANZACs and the rocky road to tactical effectiveness, 1916-17 / Andrew Macdonald
- A sideshow of a sideshow? The Arab Revolt (1916-18) and the development of modern desert warfare / David Murphy
- The reluctant pupil : the American Army on the Western Front, 1917-18 / Andrew Wiest
- The German occupation of the Ukraine, 1918 : blitzkrieg and insurgencies / Peter Lieb.