The World War I reader [[electronic resource] ] : [primary and secondary sources] / / edited by Michael S. Neiberg

• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (779 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.3
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918
• Soggetto non controllato: With; accessible; buffs; conflict; documents; extensive; gain; primary; reader; scholars; secondary; students; this; understanding
• Altri autori: NeibergMichael S
• Note generali: Subtitle from cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The 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 Hašek -- 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 -- ; The 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 Blücher -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The World War I reader
• ISBN: 0-8147-5932-7; 0-8147-5933-5; 1-4356-0040-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814215003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II