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War of Peoples 1914-1919, A


War of Peoples 1914-1919, A

Paperback by Gregory, Adrian (Fellow, Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford)

War of Peoples 1914-1919, A

£26.99

ISBN:
9780199542581
Publication Date:
8 May 2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
232 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 10 - 15 May 2024
War of Peoples 1914-1919, A

Description

A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 provides a new perspective on the First World War, offering a concise narrative of the war from the first military actions in July 1914 until the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919. Adrian Gregory considers the sources of information available to historians and the ways in which historians have written about the war for over fifty years. This volume will appeal equally to people with little or no familiarity with the events of the war and to those who already think they know about it. It presents a thought-provoking account which reflects the changes to historians' understanding of the war. There is a great deal of emphasis on aspect of the war which are less familiar to English-speaking audiences, particularly the war in Eastern Europe, in the Balkans, and on the Italian front. A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 concludes in 1919 with a study of the fraught and complex process of peace making, a subject which is often neglected in general surveys that end on 11 November 1918.

Contents

1. Escalation 1914-1915 ; 2. Attrition 1915-1916 ; 3. Exhaustion 1916-1917 ; 4. Revolutionary war 1917-1918 ; 5. Armistice and Peace 1918-1919 ; Historiography

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