Oxford In The Great War
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Author | : Hew Strachan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 0198743122 |
Originally published: 1998. New edition published in hardcover in 2014.
Author | : Ronald Schaffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 0195049047 |
Contains excerpts from 3 key legislative acts.
Author | : Paul Fussell |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2013-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199971951 |
A new edition of Paul Fussell's literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, now a classic text of literary and cultural criticism.
Author | : Randall Stevenson |
Publisher | : Oxford Textual Perspectives |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199596441 |
Literature and the Great War offers a fresh, challenging interpretation of the literature of the period, reappraising the settled assumptions through which war writing has come to be read in recent years.
Author | : Lawrence Sondhaus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107036909 |
New naval history of the First World War which reveals the contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory.
Author | : Ian Dear |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195340969 |
"First published in 1995 as The Oxford companion to the Second World War "--Verso.
Author | : Hew Strachan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1248 |
Release | : 2003-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199261911 |
This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. In Hew Strachan's authoritative and readable history these fresh perspectives are incorporated with the military and strategicnarrative. The result is an account that breaks the bounds of national preoccupations to become both global and comparative.To Arms, the first of three volumes in this magisterial study, examines not only the causes of the war and its opening clashes on land and sea, but also the ideas that underpinned it, and the motivations of the people who supported it. It provides full and pioneering accounts of the war's finances, of the war in Africa, and of the Central Powers' bid to widen the war outside Europe.
Author | : Margaret MacMillan |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 935 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0812994701 |
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and Mail From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned heads across Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph, a man who tried, through sheer hard work, to stave off the coming chaos in his empire; in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife; in Britain, King Edward VII, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and British admiral Jacky Fisher, the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea. There are the would-be peacemakers as well, among them prophets of the horrors of future wars whose warnings went unheeded: Alfred Nobel, who donated his fortune to the cause of international understanding, and Bertha von Suttner, a writer and activist who was the first woman awarded Nobel’s new Peace Prize. Here too we meet the urbane and cosmopolitan Count Harry Kessler, who noticed many of the early signs that something was stirring in Europe; the young Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and a rising figure in British politics; Madame Caillaux, who shot a man who might have been a force for peace; and more. With indelible portraits, MacMillan shows how the fateful decisions of a few powerful people changed the course of history. Taut, suspenseful, and impossible to put down, The War That Ended Peace is also a wise cautionary reminder of how wars happen in spite of the near-universal desire to keep the peace. Destined to become a classic in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August, The War That Ended Peace enriches our understanding of one of the defining periods and events of the twentieth century. Praise for The War That Ended Peace “Magnificent . . . The War That Ended Peace will certainly rank among the best books of the centennial crop.”—The Economist “Superb.”—The New York Times Book Review “Masterly . . . marvelous . . . Those looking to understand why World War I happened will have a hard time finding a better place to start.”—The Christian Science Monitor “The debate over the war’s origins has raged for years. Ms. MacMillan’s explanation goes straight to the heart of political fallibility. . . . Elegantly written, with wonderful character sketches of the key players, this is a book to be treasured.”—The Wall Street Journal “A magisterial 600-page panorama.”—Christopher Clark, London Review of Books
Author | : Malcolm Graham |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2014-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473842980 |
This book tells the fascinating, and largely forgotten, story of Oxford's part in the Great War. The University City became a military training camp as soldiers and officer cadets occupied men's colleges left virtually empty as undergraduates enlisted. Public buildings were converted into military hospitals where many war casualties were treated. The City also took in Belgian and Serbian refugees.Oxford dons engaged in vital war work, and academic life largely depended upon the women's colleges. Local industries, including Morris's new car factory at Cowley, converted to war production, and women made munitions or replaced men in other work.Fear of invasion sparked the formation of a Dad's Army, and a black-out protected the City from air raids. Civilians, especially women, supported the war effort through fund-raising and voluntary work. They also cultivated war allotments as food shortages led to communal kitchens and rationing.This expert account shows a civilian population coping with anxiety during a titanic struggle in which college heads and the humblest citizens were afflicted equally by the loss of loved ones.
Author | : James Howard-Johnston |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019883019X |
The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the fragmentary evidence of this period to form, for the first time, a coherent story of the dramatic events, key players, and vast lands over which the conflict spread.