Attrition: Fighting the First World War - Couverture rigide

Philpott, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1408703556 ISBN 13 : 9781408703557

Editeur : Little, Brown, 2014

Synopsis

The magnum opus of the First World War, from the outstanding historian at the King's College Department of War Studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr William Philpott is Professor of the History of Warfare in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He is a specialist in the First World War, in particular British strategy and the history of the French army.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

The First World War was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition among the world's great economies. Now, one hundred years after the first guns of August rang out, acclaimed military historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war.
In this astonishing re-evaluation of the war and our perceptions of it, William Philpott argues that in the competing and emotionally charged accounts of the events of 1914-1918, memories have become muddled. A war of individual engagement and collective endeavour, the Great War was the first to fully mobilise the vast resources of industrial societies in a conflict over ideals: a struggle in which warfare changed both on and off the battlefield, sucking in whole societies, establishing the pattern of social, political and military affairs for the twentieth century.

Attrition provides a much needed corrective and, for the first time, explains why and how this new type of conflict was fought as it was fought, examining the war across all its fronts: on land, at sea, at home, at the diplomatic table and between allies. With unparalleled insight, Philpott explores how the attitudes, conceptions and actions of political and military leaders, and the willing responses of their peoples, gave rise to the twentieth century's first ideologically-determined conflict and unprecedented carnage on and behind the battlefield.

In Philpott's stunning narrative, his brilliant and necessary reassessment of the whole war cuts behind the myth-making to reveal the determination, organisation and ambition on all sides.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408703556
• ISBN 13: 9781408703557
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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