LEADER 04530 am 22006733u 450 001 9910320750403321 005 20210511022749.0 010 $a3-11-043599-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110443486 035 $a(CKB)3880000000003784 035 $a(EBL)2077555 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001573404 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16226798 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001573404 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14840860 035 $a(PQKB)10087471 035 $a(DE-B1597)456767 035 $a(OCoLC)919488175 035 $a(OCoLC)920780203 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110443486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2077555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11074616 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL807982 035 $a(OCoLC)913087840 035 $a(ScCtBLL)ff0df65d-b684-41e4-86f2-d8d884fe516c 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2077555 035 $a(EXLCZ)993880000000003784 100 $a20150716h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe purpose of the first World War $ewar aims and military strategies /$fherausgegeben von Holger Afflerbach 210 1$aBerlin, Germany :$cDe Gruyter Oldenbourg,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 225 1 $aSchriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ;$v91 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-034622-2 311 0 $a3-11-044348-1 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of Content --$tDanksagung /$rAfflerbach, Holger --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tWhat Was the Great War about? /$rAfflerbach, Holger --$tMilitary Operations and National Policies, 1914-1918 /$rStrachan, Hew --$tWar Aims and Strategies of the Entente Powers of 1914 --$tFrench War Aims and Strategy /$rSoutou, Georges-Henri --$tBritish Strategy and War Aims in the First World War /$rJeffery, Keith --$tWar as Legitimisation of Revolution, Revolution as Justification of War /$rKolonitskii, Boris --$tSerbian War Aims and Military Strategy, 1914-1918 /$rBatakovi?, Du?an T. --$tWar Aims and Strategies of the Central Powers of 1914 --$tStrategy, Politics, and the Quest for a Negotiated Peace /$rChickering, Roger --$t"A Life and Death Question": Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the First World War /$rFried, Marvin Benjamin --$tReflection --$tMourir pour Liège? World War I War Aims in a Long-Term Perspective /$rHöbelt, Lothar --$tWar Aims and Strategies of Powers Entering the Conflict Later than August 1914 --$tOttoman Strategy and War Aims during the First World War /$rUyar, Mesut --$t"An Act of Madness"? /$rGooch, John --$tPresident Wilson and the War Aims of the United States /$rSchwabe, Klaus --$tConclusion --$t"... eine Internationale der Kriegsverschärfung und der Kriegsverlängerung ..." War Aims and the Chances for a Compromise Peace during the First World War /$rAfflerbach, Holger --$tList of Authors 330 $aNearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War. 410 0$aSchriften des Historischen Kollegs.$pKolloquien ;$v91. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPolitical aspects 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects. 676 $a940.311 702 $aAfflerbach$b Holger 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910320750403321 996 $aThe purpose of the first World War$92146617 997 $aUNINA