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The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, Global War
Jay (Ed) Winter
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Description for The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, Global War
Hardcover. A comprehensive and authoritative new account of the military history of the First World War. Editor(s): Winter, Dr Jay. Series: The Cambridge History of the First World War. Num Pages: 771 pages, 1 b/w illus. 64 colour illus. 30 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1426.
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond that which anyone had anticipated in 1914. Adopting a global perspective, the volume analyses the spatial impact of the war and the subsequent ripple effects that occurred both regionally and across the world. It explores how imperial powers devoted vast reserves of manpower and material to their war ... Read more
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond that which anyone had anticipated in 1914. Adopting a global perspective, the volume analyses the spatial impact of the war and the subsequent ripple effects that occurred both regionally and across the world. It explores how imperial powers devoted vast reserves of manpower and material to their war ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
752
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
The Cambridge History of the First World War
Condition
New
Number of Pages
771
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521763851
SKU
V9780521763851
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About Jay (Ed) Winter
Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, Connecticut. He came to Yale from the University of Cambridge, where he took his doctorate and where he taught history from 1979 to 2001 and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, Global War
'... both scholarly and deftly drafted, a joy to read. It provides broad as well as deep analysis of just about every conceivable facet of this global catastrophe. It deserves close reading and contemplation.' Len Shurtleff, World War One Historical Association ... both scholarly and deftly drafted, a joy to read. It provides broad as well as deep analysis ... Read more