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Attrition: Fighting the First World War
William Philpott
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Description for Attrition: Fighting the First World War
Paperback. The magnum opus of the First World War, from the outstanding historian at the King's College Department of War Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 338.
The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any sense of order and purpose, effort and achievement, was missing. Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians and those managing the vast economy of industrialised warfare, Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict born out of industrial society was fought as it was. It was the first mass war in ... Read more
The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any sense of order and purpose, effort and achievement, was missing. Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians and those managing the vast economy of industrialised warfare, Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict born out of industrial society was fought as it was. It was the first mass war in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
292g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349000077
SKU
V9780349000077
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Ref
99-50
About William Philpott
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.
Reviews for Attrition: Fighting the First World War
A first-class overview of the whole war, and a useful addition to anyone's library
Military History
Philpott's achievement is to present a view of The Great War as an attritional conflict in a very readable fashion. 'Attrition' is an accessible work for the general reader rather than a denesley argued mongraph... Attrition stands on its ... Read more
Military History
Philpott's achievement is to present a view of The Great War as an attritional conflict in a very readable fashion. 'Attrition' is an accessible work for the general reader rather than a denesley argued mongraph... Attrition stands on its ... Read more