A Companion to World War I (Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History) - Softcover

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9781119968702: A Companion to World War I (Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History)
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ISBN 10: 1119968704 ISBN 13: 9781119968702
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

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A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.

  • Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War
  • Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war's legacy
  • Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts
  • Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Horne is Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College, Dublin, and a member of the Research Centre at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France. He has published widely on the history of the Great War and of twentieth-century France, including Labour at War: France and Britain, 1914-1918 (ed., 1991), State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War (1997) and (with Alan Kramer), Germany Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (2001), which has appeared in French and German.

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A Companion to the First World War brings together a team of distinguished historians from 10 countries who contribute 38 substantial and thought-provoking chapters. The volume opens with a section on the state of the world before 1914, as it prepared for war without anticipating its true nature, and concludes with an examination of the conflict's military, diplomatic, and cultural legacies. In addition to covering the military history of the war and the individual states involved, contributors explore major themes such as war crimes, occupations, film, and gender.

Reflecting the latest historical research, this Companion enriches our understanding of the origins, nature, and impact of what remains one of the most devastating events in modern history.

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A Companion to the First World War brings together a team of distinguished historians from 10 countries who contribute 38 substantial and thought-provoking chapters. The volume opens with a section on the state of the world before 1914, as it prepared for war without anticipating its true nature, and concludes with an examination of the conflict's military, diplomatic, and cultural legacies. In addition to covering the military history of the war and the individual states involved, contributors explore major themes such as war crimes, occupations, film, and gender.

Reflecting the latest historical research, this Companion enriches our understanding of the origins, nature, and impact of what remains one of the most devastating events in modern history.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1119968704
ISBN 13 
9781119968702
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Taschenbuch
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
728
Herausgeber
Horne John
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