LEADER 03897nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910814215003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-5932-7 010 $a0-8147-5933-5 010 $a1-4356-0040-1 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814759332 035 $a(CKB)1000000000476555 035 $a(EBL)2081751 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2081751 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2081751 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170580 035 $a(OCoLC)913695291 035 $a(DE-B1597)548160 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814759332 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000476555 100 $a20060622d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe World War I reader $e[primary and secondary sources] /$fedited by Michael S. Neiberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (779 p.) 300 $aSubtitle from cover. 311 $a0-8147-5832-0 311 $a0-8147-5833-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index. 327 $aThe great illusion, 1910 / Sir Norman Angell -- Germany and the next war / General Friedrich von Bernhardi -- The "Willy-Nicky" telegrams / Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia -- The circus rider of Europe / Dennis Showalter -- The army and the nationalist revival / Douglas Porch -- The good soldier Schweik / Jaroslav Hasek -- Her privates we / Frederick Manning -- A soldier's notebook / Alexei Brusilov -- Officer-man relations: the other ranks' perspective / G. D. Sheffield -- "War enthusiasm": volunteers, departing soldiers, and victory celebrations / Jeffrey Verhey -- Foch's general counteroffensive, part I: 26 September to 23 October, 1918 / David Trask -- 327 $aThe destruction of Louvain / Leon van der Essen -- The historic first of July / Philip Gibbs -- Between mutiny and obedience / Leonard V. Smith -- The live and let live system / Tony Ashworth -- Letters from a lost generation / Vera Brittain -- An English wife in Berlin / Evelyn Blucher -- Home fires burning / Belinda J. Davis -- The politics of race / Jennifer D. Keene -- The fourteen points / President Woodrow Wilson -- Views on a prospective armistice / Ferdinand Foch and John Pershing -- The military collapse of the German Empire / Wilhelm Deist -- Diggers and doughboys: Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918 / Dale Blair -- Peacemaking, 1919 / Harold Nicolson -- British diplomacy: the Hussein-McMahon letters / Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Cairo, to Hussein Ibn Ali, the Sherif of Mecca -- A peace to end all peace / David Fromkin -- The kings depart / Richard Watt. 330 $a Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. Its enormous impact on the world in terms of international diplomacy and politics, and the ways in which future military engagements would evolve, be fought, and ultimately get resolved have been ignored. With this reader of primary and secondary documents, edited and compiled by Michael S. Neiberg, students, scholars, and war buffs can gain an extensive yet accessible understanding of this conflict. Neiberg introduces the basic problems in the history of World 517 3 $aWorld War One reader 517 3 $aWorld War 1 reader 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$vSources 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 676 $a940.3 701 $aNeiberg$b Michael S$0859804 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814215003321 996 $aThe World War I reader$93960532 997 $aUNINA