The World War I reader : [primary and secondary sources] / edited by Michael S. Neiberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neiberg, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Sources.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (779 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

World War One reader

World War 1 reader

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. Its enormous impact on the world in terms of international diplomacy and politics, and the ways in which future military engagements would evolve, be fought, and ultimately get resolved have been ignored. With this reader of primary and secondary documents, edited and compiled by Michael S. Neiberg, students, scholars, and war buffs can gain an extensive yet accessible understanding of this conflict. Neiberg introduces the basic problems in the history of World War I, shares the words and experiences of the participants themselves, and, finally, presents some of the most innovative and dynamic current scholarship on the war. Neiberg, a leading historian of World War I, has selected a wide array of primary documents, ranging from government papers to personal diaries, demonstrating the war's devastating effect on all who experienced it, whether President Woodrow Wilson, an English doughboy in the trenches, or a housewife in Germany. In addition to this material, each chapter in The World War I Reader contains a selection of articles and book chapters written by major scholars of World War I, giving readers perspectives on the war that are both historical and contemporary. Chapters are arranged chronologically and by theme, and address causes, the experiences of soldiers and their leaders, battlefield strategies and conditions, home front issues, diplomacy, and peacemaking. A time-line, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a substantive introduction by Neiberg that lays out the historiography of World War I round out the book.

Contents:

The great illusion, 1910 / Sir Norman Angell

Germany and the next war / General Friedrich von Bernhardi

The "Willy-Nicky" telegrams / Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia

The circus rider of Europe / Dennis Showalter

The army and the nationalist revival / Douglas Porch

The good soldier Schweik / Jaroslav Hasek

Her privates we / Frederick Manning

A soldier's notebook / Alexei Brusilov

Officer-man relations: the other ranks' perspective / G. D. Sheffield

"War enthusiasm": volunteers, departing soldiers, and victory celebrations / Jeffrey Verhey

Foch's general counteroffensive, part I: 26 September to 23 October, 1918 / David Trask

The destruction of Louvain / Leon van der Essen

The historic first of July / Philip Gibbs

Between mutiny and obedience / Leonard V. Smith

The live and let live system / Tony Ashworth

Letters from a lost generation / Vera Brittain

An English wife in Berlin / Evelyn Blucher

Home fires burning / Belinda J. Davis

The politics of race / Jennifer D. Keene

The fourteen points / President Woodrow Wilson

Views on a prospective armistice / Ferdinand Foch and John Pershing

The military collapse of the German Empire / Wilhelm Deist

Diggers and doughboys: Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918 / Dale Blair

Peacemaking, 1919 / Harold Nicolson

British diplomacy: the Hussein-McMahon letters / Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Cairo, to Hussein Ibn Ali, the Sherif of Mecca

A peace to end all peace / David Fromkin

The kings depart / Richard Watt.

Notes:

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index.

ISBN:

9780814759325

0814759327

9780814759332

0814759335

9781435600409

1435600401

OCLC:

913695291