The First World War: To arms, Volume 1This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches haveembraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. In Hew Strachan's authoritative and readable history these fresh perspectives are incorporated with the miltary and strategic narrative. The result is an account that breaks the bounds of national preoccupations to become both global andcomparative. To Arms, the first of three volumes in this magisterial study, examines not only the causes of the war and its opening clashes on land and sea, but also the ideas that underpinned it, and the motivations of the people who supported it. It provides full and pioneering accounts of the war's finances,of the war in Africa, and of the Central Powers' bid to widen the war outside Europe. |
Contents
THE ORIGINS OF THE WAR | 1 |
WILLINGLY TO WAR | 103 |
THE WESTERN FRONT IN 1914 | 163 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
2nd army 5th army Admiralty advance alliance ally army's artillery attack August Austria-Hungary Austrian Austro-Hungarian Balkan Bank battalions battle cruisers Belgian Bethmann Hollweg Britain British Cameroons cavalry cent central colonial command concentration Conrad corps crisis decision defeat defence direct divisions Dreadnought Duala East Africa East Prussia effect empire Entente Enver Europe European fighting flank fleet forces foreign France France's French front frontier Furthermore Galicia German Germany's gold Guerre guns High Seas Fleet Imperial India infantry Japan Joffre July Kaiser kilometres Lettow major manoeuvre March military million minister mobilization Moltke Moltke's Moroccan crisis naval navy neutrality November October offensive officers operations Ottoman Ottoman empire political position railway Royal Navy Russian Schlieffen Schütztruppen Senussi September Serb Serbia ships Smuts South-West staff Stavka strategy tactical territory threat tion Tirpitz troops Turkey Turkey's Turkish Turks victory Vistula X corps