The Oxford illustrated history of the first World War / edited by Hew Strachan.

Contributor(s):

Strachan, Hew [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Eng Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]Edition: New editionDescription: xiii, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199663385

Uniform titles:

World War I.

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.3

LOC classification:

D 521 O98 2014

Contents:

Cover; THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; Copyright; Contents; List of Colour Plates; List of Maps; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: The Origins of the War; CHAPTER 2: The Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914-1917; CHAPTER 3: Manoeuvre Warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914-1915; CHAPTER 4: The Strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914-1917; CHAPTER 5: The Balkans, 1914-1918; CHAPTER 6: Turkey's War; CHAPTER 7: The War in Africa; CHAPTER 8: The War at Sea; CHAPTER 9: Economic Warfare; CHAPTER 10: Economic Mobilization: Money, Munitions, and Machines. CHAPTER 11: The Role of Women in the WarCHAPTER 12: The Challenge to Liberalism: The Politics of the Home Fronts; CHAPTER 13: Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916-1917; CHAPTER 14: Mutinies and Military Morale; CHAPTER 15: War Aims and Peace Negotiations; CHAPTER 16: Propaganda and the Mobilization of Consent; CHAPTER 17: Socialism, Peace, and Revolution, 1917-1918; CHAPTER 18: The Entry of the USA into the War and its Effects; CHAPTER 19: The German Victories, 1917-1918; CHAPTER 20: The War in the Air; CHAPTER 21: The Allied Victories, 1918; CHAPTER 22: The Peace Settlement. CHAPTER 23: No End to WarCHAPTER 24: Memory and the Great War; MAPS; FURTHER READING; Austria-Hungary; Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Russia; United States of America; Austria-Hungary; Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Russia; United States of America; Austria-Hungary; Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Russia; United States of America; ILLUSTRATION SOURCES; INDEX.

Summary: 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 the most distinguished historians of the conflict, in an account that matches the scale of.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	D 521 O98 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		00000102421

Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-366) and index.

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 the most distinguished historians of the conflict, in an account that matches the scale of.

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