British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War)

British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War)
Title British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War) PDF eBook
Author David French
Publisher Routledge
Pages 291
Release 2014-04-03
Genre History
ISBN 1317686950

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This book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War. Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.

The Purpose of the First World War

The Purpose of the First World War
Title The Purpose of the First World War PDF eBook
Author Holger Afflerbach
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 244
Release 2015-07-01
Genre History
ISBN 3110435993

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Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.

British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War)

British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War)
Title British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War) PDF eBook
Author David French
Publisher Routledge
Pages 332
Release 2014-04-03
Genre History
ISBN 1317686942

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This book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War. Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.

Germany's Aims in the First World War

Germany's Aims in the First World War
Title Germany's Aims in the First World War PDF eBook
Author Fritz Fischer
Publisher W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Pages 652
Release 1968-09
Genre History
ISBN 9780393097986

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A scholarly interpretation of Germany's policies and attitudes during the first World War and their profound effect on subsequent world events

Battle Tactics of the Western Front

Battle Tactics of the Western Front
Title Battle Tactics of the Western Front PDF eBook
Author Paddy Griffith
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 310
Release 1996-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780300066630

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Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.

Britain and the First World War (RLE The First World War)

Britain and the First World War (RLE The First World War)
Title Britain and the First World War (RLE The First World War) PDF eBook
Author John Turner
Publisher Routledge
Pages 178
Release 2014-04-24
Genre History
ISBN 1317692144

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This book gives students an informed insight into the British experience in the First World War. The contributors, all established First World War historians, have drawn on their own research and secondary sources to give a succinct account of politics, diplomacy, strategy and social developments during a period of dramatic change. Each chapter gives a concise account of its subject and the chapters are well supported by maps and tables. This is an important textbook for school students and undergraduates which bridges the gap between specialized research on the First World War and the needs of the student reader.

The First World War

The First World War
Title The First World War PDF eBook
Author Michael Howard
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 161
Release 2007-01-25
Genre History
ISBN 0199205590

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This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.