The Allied Blockade of Germany, 1914-1916
Author | : Marion C. Siney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9780837171616 |
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Author | : Marion C. Siney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9780837171616 |
Author | : Eric W. Osborne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2004-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135771278 |
Great Britain's economic blockade of Germany in World War I was one of the key elements to the victory of the Entente. Though Britain had been the leading exponent of blockades for two centuries, the World War I blockade was not effective at the outbreak of hostilities.
Author | : Archibald Colquhoun Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marion C. Siney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gerd Hardach |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520043978 |
Author | : Charles Paul Vincent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In his study of the Allied blockade of 1915-1919, Vincent examines the rationale and impact of this first large-scale use of food as a weapon in the twentieth century. Vincent demonstrates that the collapse of the German war effort was induced as much by prolonged hunger as by military reversal. Under blockade since 1915, the starving Germans were, by 1918, in a state of growing anarchy. Remarkably, however, the armistice ending hostilities specifically required the continuation of the blockade until such time as German signatures had been affixed to a peace treaty.
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.
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.