The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0812967151 ISBN 13: 9780812967159

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2004

Riassunto

A collection of writings by the world's foremost military historians sheds new light on the causes, events, campaigns, personalities, and repercussions of World War I, including thirty-one essays by Thomas Fleming, Robert Wohl, John Keegan, Tim Travers, Sir Michael Howard, Ronald Spector, and others. Reprint. 14,000 first printing.

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Robert Cowley is the founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, from which these articles were taken. He has edited two previous MHQ anthologies, No End Save Victory, about World War II, and With My Face to the Enemy, about the Civil War. He has also edited two volumes of the What If? series, and a third that will appear later this year. Cowley, a well-known authority on the Great War, has traveled the entire length of the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Swiss border. He lives in Connecticut.


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The great war or the First World War, as most Americans call it was the true turning point of the century just past. It brought down dynasties and empires, including the Ottoman one of the roots of our present difficulties. It changed the United States from a bumptious provincial nation into a world power. It made World War II inevitable, and the Cold War as well. Above all, the Great War was history s first total war, an armed conflict on a world stage between industrialized powers.

Robert Cowley has brought together the thirty articles in this book to examine that unnecessary but perhaps inevitable war in its diverse aspects. A number of the subjects covered here are not just unfamiliar but totally fresh. Who originated the term no-man s-land and the word tank ? What forgotten battles nearly destroyed the French Army in 1915? How did the discovery of a German naval codebook bring the United States into the war? What was the weapon that, for the first time, put a man-made object into the stratosphere?

The Great War takes a hard look at the legend of the Massacre of the Innocents at Ypres in 1914 an event that became a cornerstone of Nazi mythology. It describes the Gallipoli campaign as it has never been described before from the Turkish side. Brought to life as well are the horrors of naval warfare, as both British and German sailors experienced them at the Battle of Jutland; the near breakdown of the American commander, John H. Pershing; and the rarely told story of the British disaster on the Tigris River in what is now Iraq.

Michael Howard chronicles the summer of 1914 and the descent into a war that leaders were actually more afraid to avoid than to join. John Keegan writes about the muddy tragedy of Passchendaele in 1917. Jan Morris details the rise and fall of Sir John Fisher, whom she characterizes as the greatest British admiral since Nelson. Robert Cowley tells the haunting story of the artist Käthe Kollwitz, determined to create a memorial to her dead son.
In every way this is a book that does justice to the drama and complexity of the twentieth century s seminal event.


From the Hardcover edition.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0812967151
• ISBN 13: 9780812967159
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 509
• Redattore: Cowley Robert
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile