The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0812967151 ISBN 13 : 9780812967159

Editeur : Random House Inc, 2004

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The First World War was the true turning point of the 20th century. It brought down dynasties and empires, including the Ottoman. It changed the United States from a bumptious provincial nation into a world power. It made World War II inevitable, and the Cold War as well. Above all, the Great War was history's first total war, an armed conflict on a world stage between industrialized powers. Robert Cowley has brought together the 30 articles in this book to examine the war in all its diverse aspects. A number of the subjects covered are not just unfamiliar, but totally fresh. Who originated the term 'no-man's-land' and the word 'tank'? What forgotten battles nearly destroyed the French Army in 1915? How did the discovery of a German naval codebook bring the United States into the war? What was the weapon that, for the first time, put a man-made object into the stratosphere? The Great War takes a hard look at the legend of the 'Massacre of the Innocents' at Ypres in 1914 - an event that became a cornerstone of Nazi mythology. It describes the Gallipoli campaign as it has never been described before - from the Turkish side. Here too are the horrors of naval warfare, as both British and German sailors experienced them at the Battle of Jutland; the near breakdown of the American commander, John H. Pershing; and the rarely told story of the British disaster on the Tigris River in what is now Iraq. Michael Howard chronicles the summer of 1914 and the descent into a war that leaders were actually more afraid to avoid than to join. John Keegan writes about the muddy tragedy of Passchendaele in 1917. Jan Morris details the rise and fall of Sir John Fisher, whom she characterizes as the greatest British admiral since Nelson.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Cowley is the founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, from which these articles were taken. He has edited two previous MHQ anthologies, No End Save Victory, about World War II, and With My Face to the Enemy (also published by Pimlico), about the American Civil War. He has also edited two volumes of the What If? series, and a third that will appear later this year. He lives in Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812967151
• ISBN 13: 9780812967159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 509
• Éditeur: Cowley Robert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible