Blockade Of The Central Empires 1914 1918
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A History of the Blockade of Germany and the Countries Associated with Her in the Great War, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, 1914-1918
Author | : Archibald Colquhoun Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
A History of the Blockade of Germany and of the Countries Associated with Her in the Great War, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, 1914-1918
Author | : Archibald Colquhoun Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 845 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Conflict and Compromise
Author | : M.M. Farrar |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9401019924 |
The historical literature on the first world war has devoted relatively little attention to the Allied blockade of the Central Powers. The few published studies have concentrated either on the blockade's naval aspects or exclusively on the British contribution. Little effort has been made heretofore to distinguish the French role. This study focuses on the French contribution to the diplomatic, as contrasted with the maritime, blockade of the Central Powers. It discusses primarily French relations with the so-called European border neutral states : principally Switzerland, but also the Netherlands and the three Scandinavian countries. Only in the diplomatic aspects of the Allied blockade program did the French play a distinctive role. Their token contribution to maritime blockade activity remained subordinate to the British. An examination of Franco-neutral rela tions involves not only a study of those diplomatic contacts per se but also a comparison of French and British tactics as a reflection of differing economic warfare concepts. This study also investigates the development of a French blockade organization to meet the demands of this new weapon, the diplomatic blockade.
Blockade and Sea Power
Author | : Maurice Parmelee |
Publisher | : New York : Thomas Y. Crowell |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Blockade |
ISBN | : |
History of the 22nd Service Battalion
Author | : Christopher Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781847341020 |
Many historians attribute the seemingly sudden collapse of Germany and her Central Powers allies in 1918, not to defeats on the battlefields of the western front, but to the disastrous cumulative effects of the British blockade of Germany's ports and coastline. This massive volume - kept strictly secret until as recently as 1960 - is the official history of the blockade that brought the Kaiser's proud Reich to its knees. Germany, hoping to knock out France and end the war in weeks, was ill prepared for a long conflict in which economic factors would come to play a decisive role. Totally dependent on the import of food and raw materials, Germany was supremely vulnerable to the Royal Navy choking off its lifelines. After the Battle of Jutland in 1916 had confined Germany's High Seas Fleet to port, the tightening blockade became ever more effective, progressively causing the regulation of food prices, rationing, and finally the dreadful 'Turnip Winter' of 1917 in which its hungry population was reduced to eating the eponymous vegetable, and brewing ersatz coffee from acorns. 750,000 Germans starved to death, and the collapse in civilian morale led to social revolution, mutinies in the Fleet and Army, and finally to Germany sueing for armistice terms.As we mark the centenary of the war, this previously restricted and hugely detailed record is of crucial importance to our understanding one of of the vital factors that finally brought Allied victory.
The Effects of the British Blockade of the Central Powers on Selected Neutral Nations, 1914 - 1919
Author | : Duncan Lewis Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Neutrality |
ISBN | : |
The First World War, 1914-1918
Author | : Gerd Hardach |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520043978 |
Ring of Steel
Author | : Alexander Watson |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465056873 |
A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered catastrophic losses, and Britain's ruthless blockade brought both nations to the brink of starvation. The Central powers were trapped in the Allies' ever-tightening Ring of Steel. In this compelling history, Alexander Watson retells the war from the perspective of its losers: not just the leaders in Berlin and Vienna, but the people of Central Europe. The war shattered their societies, destroyed their states, and imparted a poisonous legacy of bitterness and violence. A major reevaluation of the First World War, Ring of Steel is essential for anyone seeking to understand the last century of European history.