The Great War: 1914-1918 / Edition 2

by Ian F. W. Beckett

Overview

Starting with the context and origins of the war, The Great War covers the course of the conflict and its consequences for states, societies and individuals, for military science and technology, for national and international politics, and for the arts, national memory and political thought. At the same time, it questions common assumptions about the nature of the First World War and how it has been consistently and, wrongly, perceived as an exercise in futility. This second edition incorporates the most recent research and presents a thematic study of the war in all its aspects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405812528
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/08/2007
Series:	Modern Wars In Perspective
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	856
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Beckett is an internationally renowned specialist on the Great War. His publications include such acclaimed titles as Ypres : The Last Battle , 1914 (2004). The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (2003), and A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (with Keith Simpson) (1985)

Table of Contents

CONTENTS:

1. Another Country

2. Guns in August

3. Over by Christmas

4. Widening Horizons

5. Westerners and Easterners

6. New Ways of War

7. Nations in Arms

8. War and the State

9. War and Society

10. War, Politics and Revolution

11. Victors and Vanquished

12. Wastelands?