The Eastern Front 1914-1917

The Eastern Front 1914-1917 PDF Author: Norman Stone
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140267255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Professor Stone's account of the World War I on the Eastern front, now reissued with a new introduction.

The Eastern Front 1914-1917

The Eastern Front 1914-1917 PDF Author: Norman Stone
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140267255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Professor Stone's account of the World War I on the Eastern front, now reissued with a new introduction.

Decisions for War, 1914-1917

Decisions for War, 1914-1917 PDF Author: Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia, 1914–17

The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia, 1914–17 PDF Author: Lewis H Siegelbaum
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349173169
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California

Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Dance of the Furies

Dance of the Furies PDF Author: Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674049543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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By training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting in 1914, Neiberg dispels the notion that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national boundaries.

City Document ...

City Document ... PDF Author: Worcester (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Worcester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1164

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The Great Class War 1914-1918

The Great Class War 1914-1918 PDF Author: Jacques R. Pauwels
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459411072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders. For European statesmen, a large-scale war could give their countries new colonial territories, important to growing capitalist economies. For the wealthy and ruling classes, war served as an antidote to social revolution, encouraging workers to exchange socialism's focus on international solidarity for nationalism's intense militarism. And for the working classes themselves, war provided an outlet for years of systemic militarization -- quite simply, they were hardwired to pick up arms, and to do so eagerly. To Pauwels, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914 -- traditionally upheld by historians as the spark that lit the powder keg -- was not a sufficient cause for war but rather a pretext seized upon by European powers to unleash the kind of war they had desired. But what Europe's elite did not expect or predict was some of the war's outcomes: social revolution and Communist Party rule in Russia, plus a wave of political and social democratic reforms in Western Europe that would have far-reaching consequences. Reflecting his broad research in the voluminous recent literature about the First World War by historians in the leading countries involved in the conflict, Jacques Pauwels has produced an account that challenges readers to rethink their understanding of this key event of twentieth century world history.

Monthly List of State Publications

Monthly List of State Publications PDF Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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28 June

28 June PDF Author: Alan Sharp
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1908323760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's precipitous descent into war. This war was the first conflict to be fought on a global scale. By its end in 1918, four empires had collapsed, and their minority populations, which had never before existed as independent entities, were encouraged to seek self-determination and nationhood. Following on from Haus’s monumental thirty-two Volume series on the signatories of the Versailles peace treaty, The Makers of the Modern World, 28 June looks in greater depth at the smaller nations that are often ignored in general histories, and in doing so seeks to understand the conflict from a global perspective, asking not only how each of the signatories came to join the conflict but also giving an overview of the long-term consequences of their having done so.

The West Yorkshire Regiment in the War 1914-1918 Vol 1

The West Yorkshire Regiment in the War 1914-1918 Vol 1 PDF Author: Everard Wyrall
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1781506434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Another weighty regimental history, two volumes, 820 pages in all covering the record of twenty-two battalions in France, Flanders, Italy and Gallipoli (all of them served on the Western Front). When war broke out the regiment consisted of two Regular battalions (1st and 2nd), two Special Reserve (3rd and 4th) and four Territorial battalions (5th to 8th); the 1st Battalion went to France with 6th Division in September 1914, the 2nd Battalion came home from Malta to join the newly formed 8th Division (Regular) and went to France in November 1914. Both battalions remained in the same brigades (18th and 23rd) and divisions throughout the war. The four Territorial battalions each formed a 2nd and a 3rd line battalion; the four original battalions made up the 146th Brigade, 49th (West Riding) Division, arriving in France in April 1915, the second line battalions combined to make the 185th Brigade, 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division which arrived in France in January 1917. Kitchener's call to arms resulted in eleven Service battalions being raised, 9th to 18th (the 17th was formed as a Bantam battalion) and 21st; of these only 13th and 14th did not go on active service. The 21st Battalion became a Pioneer battalion in 4th Division and the 22nd was a Labour battalion which also went to France. This history records events in chronological order, the dates of the operations being described are shown in the margin as are the identities of the battalions involved. Volume 1 (x + 355pp with 18 maps and 15 b/w photos) covers the period from the outbreak of war to the end of 1916, the close of the Somme offensive and includes the Dardanelles campaign where the 9th Battalion was in action with the 11th (Northern) Division. On 1st July 1916, the first day of the Somme, the 10th Battalion attacked at Fricourt and incurred the heaviest casualties of any battalion - 710, of whom 307 were killed including the CO, 2IC, adjutant and two company commanders. More than half of them are in in Fricourt New Military Cemetery which is in the No Man's Land across which they attacked and where they died. The CO (Lt Col Dickson) and his adjutant (Capt Shann) lie side by side. There is a Roll of Honour for the period covered in which the other ranks are listed alphabetically by battalions as are the Territorial battalion officers; the other officers are shown in one group in alphabetical order with the battalion number in front of the name. Although the note at the head of the officer casualty list states that the theatre in which death occurred is France and Flanders unless otherwise indicated, nonetheless 'Gallipoli' is not shown against the names of the officers of the 9th Battalion who died there, and so one is left with the wrong impression they died on the Western front.