The World War I Reader

Media type: E-Book

Title: The World War I Reader

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Maps
Timeline of Major Events
Brief Biographies of Important Figures Mentioned in the Text
Introduction
One: Causes
Primary
1.1 The Great Illusion, 1910
1.2 Germany and the Next War
1.3 The “Willy-Nicky” Telegrams
Secondary
1.4 The Circus Rider of Europe
1.5 The Army and the Nationalist Revival
Two: Soldiers
Primary
2.1 The Good Soldier Schweik
2.2 Her Privates We
2.3 A Soldier’s Notebook
Secondary
2.4 Officer-Man Relations: The Other Ranks’ Perspective
2.5 “War Enthusiasm”: Volunteers, Departing Soldiers, and Victory Celebrations
2.6 Foch’s General Counteroffensive, Part I: 26 September to 23 October 1918
Three: Armageddon
Primary
3.1 The Destruction of Louvain
3.2 The Historic First of July
Secondary
3.3 Between Mutiny and Obedience
3.4 The Live and Let Live System
Four: Home Fronts
Primary
4.1 Letters from a Lost Generation
4.2 An English Wife in Berlin
Secondary
4.3 Home Fires Burning
4.4 The Politics of Race
Five: The End of the War
Primary
5.1 The Fourteen Points
5.2 Views on a Prospective Armistice
Secondary
5.3 The Military Collapse of the German Empire
5.4 Diggers and Doughboys Australian and American Troop Interaction on the Western Front, 1918
Six: Peace
Primary
6.1 Peacemaking, 1919
6.2 British Diplomacy: The Hussein-McMahon Letters
Secondary
6.3 A Peace to End All Peace
6.4 The Kings Depart
Further Reading
Index
About the Editor

Contributor: Ali, Hussein Ibn [Contributor]; Angell, Norman [Contributor]; Ashworth, Tony [Contributor]; Bernhardi, Friedrich von [Contributor]; Blair, Dale [Contributor]; Blücher, Evelyn [Contributor]; Brittain, Vera [Contributor]; Brusilov, Alexei [Contributor]; Davis, Belinda J [Contributor]; Deist, Wilhelm [Contributor]; Essen, Leon van der [Contributor]; Foch, Ferdinand [Contributor]; Fromkin, David [Contributor]; Gibbs, Philip [Contributor]; Hašek, Jaroslav [Contributor]; Keene, Jennifer D. [Contributor]; Manning, Frederic [Contributor]; McMahon, Henry [Contributor]; Neiberg, Michael S. [Editor]; Nicolson, Harold [Contributor]; Pershing, John [Contributor]; Porch, Douglas [Contributor]; Sheffield, G. D. [Contributor]; Showalter, Dennis [Contributor]; Smith, Leonard V. [Contributor]; Trask, David [Contributor]; Verhey, Jeffrey [Contributor]; Watt, Richard [Contributor]; Wilson, Woodrow [Contributor]

Published: New York, NY: New York University Press, [2006]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814759332

ISBN: 9780814759332

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Keywords: World War, 1914-1918 Sources ; World War, 1914-1918 ; HISTORY / Military / World War I ; With ; accessible ; buffs ; conflict ; documents ; extensive ; gain ; primary ; reader ; scholars ; secondary ; students ; this ; understanding

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Footnote: In English

Description: Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. Its enormous impact on the world in terms of international diplomacy and politics, and the ways in which future military engagements would evolve, be fought, and ultimately get resolved have been ignored. With this reader of primary and secondary documents, edited and compiled by Michael S. Neiberg, students, scholars, and war buffs can gain an extensive yet accessible understanding of this conflict. Neiberg introduces the basic problems in the history of World War I, shares the words and experiences of the participants themselves, and, finally, presents some of the most innovative and dynamic current scholarship on the war. Neiberg, a leading historian of World War I, has selected a wide array of primary documents, ranging from government papers to personal diaries, demonstrating the war’s devastating effect on all who experienced it, whether President Woodrow Wilson, an English doughboy in the trenches, or a housewife in Germany. In addition to this material, each chapter in The World War I Reader contains a selection of articles and book chapters written by major scholars of World War I, giving readers perspectives on the war that are both historical and contemporary. Chapters are arranged chronologically and by theme, and address causes, the experiences of soldiers and their leaders, battlefield strategies and conditions, home front issues, diplomacy, and peacemaking. A time-line, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a substantive introduction by Neiberg that lays out the historiography of World War I round out the book

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