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World War I, a compact history / by Grace P. Hayes. Introduction by Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy.
LIBRA D521 .H353 1972
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayes, Grace P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 338 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- World War One a compact history
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hawthorn Books, Inc. Publishers, [1972]
- Contents:
- Beginning
- The lines are drawn
- War begins at sea
- First battles in the West
- The battles at the Western Frontiers
- The German advance to the Marne
- The Battle of the Marne
- First battles on the Eastern Front
- From Oise to the sea
- Offensives and counteroffensives in the East
- Naval action and inaction
- The odyssey of Admiral von Spee
- Turkey joins the Central Powers
- Stalemate on the Western Front
- A new venture
- The Dardanelles and Gallipoli
- Italy enters the war
- More offensives in the East
- Knockout in Serbia
- Autumn offensives on the Western Front
- Germany's colonies
- Verdun
- The Somme
- Jutland
- The Brusilov Offensive
- Rumania's shortwar
- Austrians in Italy, 1916
- Salonika
- The less-known war against Turkey
- 1915-1916
- "Laon in twenty-four hours"
- Flanders' muddy, bloody fields
- Crisis in Italy
- The Russian Revolution and the campaign of 1917
- Advance in Mesopotamia
- Out of the land of Egypt
- Planning for 1918
- America's crucial role
- The well-planned offensive:Michael
- Backs to the wall
- The Foch Counteroffensive
- Italy and the Balkans
- 1918
- The end of the war for Turkey
- German East Africa
- The war in the air
- a comment
- The Postwar War in Russia.
- Notes:
- "Perhaps the most striking thing about World War I is the futility of it all, the enormous waste of men and matériel in a war that settled nothing. Thousands and thousands of young men were sent to their deaths to little purpose. The war had its heroes and its moments of glory, but they are obscured in the larger picture of destruction and gore."--Foreword.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-329) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1974".
- Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.
- OCLC:
- 483570
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