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Two orphans escape from their torched home in a small village. The villageーits history, language, and cultureーhas left an indelible impression with me. So much of the sentiment I have for this reg……続きを見る

On 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and shattered the peace of the whole world. This was the beginning of t……続きを見る

La guerra su tre fronti è un'opera di propaganda, pubblicato in America con il titolo "War and The Future: Italy, France and Britain at War". Fatta eccezione per la storia di apertura, i capitoli su……続きを見る

In The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in international politics, emphasizing the importance of reliabilityーconfidence that, based on past political ac……続きを見る

In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in s……続きを見る

Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in p……続きを見る

How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cult……続きを見る

In A Minor Apocalypse, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war" of 1914–1918. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great War,……続きを見る

Between 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border pose……続きを見る

First published in 1940, the original blurb reads: Here is an inquiry how to make a just and lasting peace when the danger of further aggression by Herr Hitler’s Germany has been removed. A feature ……続きを見る

Described by historians as a "total war," World War I was the first conflict that required a comprehensive mobilization of all members of society, regardless of profession, age, or gender. Just as w……続きを見る

Five days after the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, American Kiffin Rockwell was on a ship headed for France. The United States would not join the war for nearly three years, but Rock……続きを見る

Eugene Windchy lays bare the tricks, errors and secret plans that have led the American people into avoidable wars. In order to prevent wars in the future, we need to know how they have come about i……続きを見る

The origins of the First World War explained by the great historian Élie Halévy: ‘a model of explanation which in its profundity and suggestiveness has never been rivaled’ (Fritz Stern). The book ……続きを見る

If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general sta……続きを見る

Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener and action again in the First Worl……続きを見る

Arguably the most personal of the major British command memoirs of WWI, covering the full duration of the conflict. Charteris was Haig's BGGS (Intelligence) from 1916 to 1918; his nickname 'The Prin……続きを見る

IF EVER there was a subject fit for the hand of the biographer, the story of the Great Eastern is surely it. James Dugan has made the entertaining most of a monstrous but true episode of the high Vi……続きを見る

This volume provides the English-speaking reader with little-known perspectives of Central and Eastern European historians on the topic of the Russian Revolution. Whereas research into the Soviet Un……続きを見る

Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to ……続きを見る

This is a book about the tensions and entangled interactions between internationalism and nationalism, and about the effects both had on European scientific and cultural settings from the mid-ninete……続きを見る

Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war industries of metropoli……続きを見る

Major Gerald Bayley Carter, was for 13 years in the Royal Army Medical Corps and retired on 20 November 1911 in Britain with the rank of Major. Almost immediately he emigrated with his wife and youn……続きを見る

MY personal participation in general politics in the Ottoman Empire begins with the coup d’état of January 23, 1913. On the evening of that day I left the headquarters of the Lines of Communication ……続きを見る

First published posthumously in 1932, this is the first volume of two that comprise French Field Marshal Joffre’s fascinating memoirs. Volume I takes the reader on a journey of his experiences in th……続きを見る

In his 1924 book, Egypt and the Army, author P. G. Elgood demonstrated his intimate knowledge and reasoned criticism of the conditions and circumstances which brought the Egyptian Army into being fr……続きを見る

The Memoirs of George Sherston brings together in one memorable volume the three widely-hailed “autobiographical novels” of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Set against the dark backgrou……続きを見る

This autobiographical novel of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon was first published in 1930. The Memoirs of an Infantry Office, widely considered a classic among war books, tells of the a……続きを見る

First published posthumously in 1932, this is the second and final volume of French Field Marshal Joffre’s fascinating memoirs. Volume II picks up where Volume I left off at the conclusion of 1914 a……続きを見る

The Whispering Gallery: Being Leaves from the Diary of an Ex-Diplomat, which first appeared anonymously in 1926, takes the form of a portrait gallery, consisting of brief biographical sketches of pu……続きを見る