The Oxford illustrated history of the First World War / edited by Hew Strachan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strachan, Hew.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

Frome, Somerset : Printed by Butler & Tanner.

Other Title:

Illustrated history of the First World War

World War I a history

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

In this extensively illustrated book, an international team of experts explores the legacy of "the war to end wars". From its causes to its consequences, the course of the war is charted and its political and human toll assessed. of color plates. 140 illustrations.

Contents:

The origins of the War / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.

The strategy of Central Powers, 1914-1917 / L.L. Farrar, Jr.

Manoeuvre warfare: the Eastern and Western fronts, 1914-1915 / D. E. Showalter

The strategy of the Entente Powers, 1917-1917 / David French

The Balkans, 1914-1918 / R. J. Crampton

Turkey's War / Ulrich Trumpener

The War in Africa / David Killingray

The War at sea / Paul G. Halpern

Economic warfare / B. J. C. McKercher

Economic mobilization: money, munitions, and machines / Hew Strachan

Women, war, and work / Gail Braybon

The challenge to liberalism: the politics of the home fronts / L. A. Turner

Eastern front and Western front, 1916-1917 / Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson

Mutinies and military morale / David Englander

War aims and peace negotiations / David Stevenson

Propaganda and mobilization of consent / J. M. Winter

Socialism, peace, and revolution, 1917-1918 / John Horne

The entry of the USA into the War and its effects / David Trask

The German victories, 1917-1918 / Holger H. Herwig

The War in the air / John H. Morrow, Jr.

The allied victories, 1918 / Tim Travers

The peace settlement / Zara Steiner

Memory and the Great War / Modris Eksteins.

Notes:

Marginal headings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copies 1 & 2: dust jackets retained.

ISBN:

0198206143

9780198206149

OCLC:

230710104