The World crisis. Part III, 1916-1918 / Winston S. Churchill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Churchill, Winston S., author.

Series:

Winston Churchill world crisis collection ; volume 3, parts 1 and 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : RosettaBooks, 2013.

Summary:

A volume in Churchill's history of the First World War that is "essential reading, as fresh and compelling as ever" (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winston ). This epic volume-third in a five-volume history of World War I from the eyewitness perspective of a highly-placed political insider-details Winston S.Churchill's development of the Ten Year Rule, which gave the treasury unprecedented power over financial, foreign, and strategic policy for years to come. In March 1916, Churchill returned to England to speak once more in the House of Commons. Appointed first Minister of Munitions, then later Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air, Churchill was in a prime position to observe and document the violent end of World War I. This volume gives context for the events that came before Churchill's return, including the intense battles of Jutland and Verdun. And it provides a rare perspective in the unbiased observances of a political leader with a journalist's eye for the truth and a historian's sense of significance-qualities which helped earn him a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

I The High Command

II The Blood Test

III Falkenhayn's Choice

IV Verdun

V Jutland: The Preliminaries

VI Jutland: The Encounter

VII The Battle of the Somme

VIII The Roumanian Disaster

IX The Intervention of the United States

X A Political Interlude

XI General Nivelle's Experiment

XII At the Ministry of Munitions

XIII The Munitions Budget

XIV The Autumn Struggle

XV Britain Conquers the U-Boats

XVI The German Concentration in the West

XVII The Twenty-First of March

XVIII The Climax

XIX The Surprise of the Chemin des Dames

XX The Unfought Campaign

XXI The Turn of the Tide

XXII The Teutonic Collapse

XXIII Victory

Appendix

J British, French and German Casualty Returns

K Ally and German Battleship Strength, 1917

L Ministry of Munitions Council, 1917-18

M Munition Minutes, 1917

N Mechanical Power in the Offensive

O Tank Minutes

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780795331466

0795331460

9780795331473

0795331479

OCLC:

1051141609