The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War

by Strachan, Hew

• ISBN13: 9780192893253
• ISBN10: 0192893254
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780198206149, 9780199663385
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The affects and influences of World War One on the history of the 20th century are studied in this extensively illustrated book, from its causes to its consequences, and from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals. Features 140 illustrations, 16 pages of color plates, and seven maps.

Author Biography

Hew Strachan is Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow, and Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Politics of the British Army (OUP, 1997).

Table of Contents

List of Colour Plates	vii
List of Maps	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Hew Strachan
The Origins of the War	9	(17)
Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.
The Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914-1917	26	(13)
L. L. Farrar, Jr.
Manoeuvre Warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914-1915	39	(15)
D. E. Showalter
The Strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914-1917	54	(12)
David French
The Balkans, 1914-1918	66	(14)
R. J. Crampton
Turkey's War	80	(12)
Ulrich Trumpener
The War in Africa	92	(12)
David Killingray
The War at Sea	104	(15)
Paul G. Halpern
Economic Warfare	119	(15)
B. J. C. Mckercher
Economic Mobilization: Money, Munitions, and Machines	134	(15)
Hew Strachan
Women, War, and Work	149	(14)
Gail Braybon
The Challenge to Liberalism: The Politics of the Home Fronts	163	(16)
J. A. Turner
Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916-1917	179	(12)
Robin Prior
Trevor Wilson
Mutinies and Military Morale	191	(13)
David Englander
War Aims and Peace Negotiations	204	(12)
David Stevenson
Propaganda and the Mobilization of Consent	216	(11)
J. M. Winter
Socialism, Peace, and Revolution, 1917-1918	227	(12)
John Horne
The Entry of the USA into the War and its Effects	239	(14)
David Trask
The German Victories, 1917-1918	253	(12)
Holger H. Herwig
The War in the Air	265	(13)
John H. Morrow, Jr.
The Allied Victories, 1918	278	(13)
Tim Travers
The Peace Settlement	291	(14)
Zara Steiner
Memory and the Great War	305	(14)
Modris Eksteins
Further Reading	319	(28)
Illustration Sources	347	(2)
Index	349