[PDF] Britain And A Widening War 1915 1916 eBook

Author : Peter Liddle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473867193

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In a series of concise, thought-provoking chapters the authors summarize and make accessible the latest scholarship on the middle years of the Great War 1915 and 1916 and cover fundamental issues that are rarely explored outside the specialist journals. Their work is an important contribution to advancing understanding of Britains role in the war, and it will be essential reading for anyone who is keen to keep up with the fresh research and original interpretation that is transforming our insight into the impact of the global conflict. The principal battles and campaigns are reconsidered from a new perspective, but so are more general topics such as military leadership, the discord between Britains politicians and generals, conscientious objection and the part played by the Indian Army. The longer-term effects of the war are also considered facial reconstruction, developments in communication, female support for men on active service, grief and bereavement, the challenge to religious belief, battlefield art, and the surviving vestiges of the war. Peter Liddle and his fellow contributors have compiled a volume that will come to be seen as a landmark in the field. Contributors: Andrew BamjiClive BarrettNick BosanquetJames CookeEmily GlassGraeme GoodayAdrian GregoryAndrea HetheringtonRobert JohnsonSpencer JonesPeter LiddleJuliet MacdonaldJessica MeyerDavid MillichopeNS NashWilliam PhilpottJames PughDuncan RedfordNicholas SaundersGary SheffieldJack SheldonJohn SpencerKapil Subramanian

Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107036909

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New naval history of the First World War which reveals the contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory.

Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139448358

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This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.

Author : Adrian Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521450373

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A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.

Author : Heather Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 110842936X

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Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 078672529X

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From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces. That the war was wicked, horrific, and inhuman is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. Indeed, more British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with little reluctance and with some enthusiasm. For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper or more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.

Author : Christopher M. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019870254X

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The story of the highly controversial First World War campaign that nearly destroyed Churchill's reputation for good and of his decades-long battle to set the record straight--a battle which ultimately helped clear the way for Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in Britain's "darkest hour."

Author : Stefano Marcuzzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108924603

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This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues – war aims, war strategy and peace-making – and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.