The War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World War)
Title | The War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World War) PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kennedy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317702522 |
The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in particular and of militarism in general, are a key focus of attention. Did the military wrest control from the civilians? Were the leaders of Europe eager for a conflict? What military commitments were made between the various alliance blocks? These questions are examined in detail here in eleven essays by distinguished historians and the editor’s introduction provides a focus and draws out the comparative approach to the history of military policies and war plans of the great powers.
The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914
Title | The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Kennedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9781138017511 |
The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in particular and of militarism in general, are a key focus of attention. Did the military wrest control from the civilians? Were the leaders of Europe eager for a conflict? What military commitments were made between the various alliance blocks? These questions are examined in detail here in eleven essays by distinguished historians and the editor's introduction provides a focus and draws out the comparative approach to the history of military policies and war plans of the great powers.
The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914
Title | The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Kennedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN |
War Planning [electronic Resource].
Title | War Planning [electronic Resource]. PDF eBook |
Author | Richard F. Hamilton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780511638398 |
War Planning 1914
Title | War Planning 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard F. Hamilton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2009-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113948169X |
The major European powers drafted war plans before 1914 and executed them in August 1914; none brought the expected victory by Christmas. Why? This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting for the first time in three decades. The book analyzes the war plans of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia on the basis of the latest research and explores their demise in the opening months of World War I. Collectively and comparatively, these essays place contingency war planning before 1914 in the different contexts and challenges each state faced as well as into a broad European paradigm. This is the first such undertaking since Paul Kennedy's groundbreaking War Plans of the Great Powers (1979), and the end result is breathtaking in both scope and depth of analysis.
A Scrap of Paper
Title | A Scrap of Paper PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel V. Hull |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2014-04-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801470641 |
In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war. Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played—where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.
War Aims and Strategic Policy in the Great War 1914-1918 (RLE the First World War)
Title | War Aims and Strategic Policy in the Great War 1914-1918 (RLE the First World War) PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Hunt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Strategy |
ISBN | 9781138016613 |
Recent research has largely destroyed the fallacy that most of the powers declared war in 1914 without any clear perception of why and to what ultimate end. War aims were the subject of frequent examination, although decisions to publicise the results depended on a number of factors affecting both national and alliance politics. This book is a collection of original essays by six distinguished scholars dealing with the problem of the major powers' political aims and military strategies during World War I. The contributors write from the viewpoint of their own special interests and research and so offer a broad spectrum of ideas on the main theme of the book.