The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint of First Edition, 1/9/2014
EAN 9780521763851, ISBN10: 0521763851

Hardcover, 771 pages, 23.5 x 16.3 x 4.2 cm
Language: English

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 efforts and how, by doing so, they changed the political landscape of the world order. It also charts the moral, political and legal implications of the changing character of war and, in particular, the collapse of the distinction between civilian and military targets.

Introduction to Volume 1 Jay Winter
Part I. A Narrative History
Introduction to Part I Jay Winter
1. Origins Volker Berghahn
2. 1914
outbreak Jean-Jacques Becker and Gerd Krumeich
3. 1915
stalemate Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau
4. Total war Robin Prior
5. 1917
global war Michael Neiberg
6. 1918
endgame Christoph Mick
7. 1919
aftermath Bruno Cabanes
Part II. Theatres of War
Introduction to Part II Robin Prior
8. The Western Front Robin Prior
9. The Eastern Front Holger Afflerbach
10. The Italian Front Nicola Labanca
11. The Ottoman Front Robin Prior
12. The war at sea Paul Kennedy
13. The air war John Morrow
14. Command and strategy Gary Sheffield and Steve Badsey
Part III. World War
Introduction to Part III Jay Winter and John Horne
15. The imperial framework John Morrow
16. Africa Bill Nasson
17. The Ottoman Empire Mustafa Aksakal
18. Asia Guoqi Xu
19. North America Jennifer Keene
20. Latin America Olivier Compagnon
Part IV. Rules of Engagement, Laws of War and War Crimes
Introduction to Part IV Annette Becker and Annie Deperchin
21. Atrocities and war crimes John Horne
22. Genocide Hans-Lukas Kieser and Donald Bloxham
23. The laws of war Annie Deperchin
24. Visual essay
global war Jay Winter.

Advance praise for the set: '... formidably comprehensive ...' The Bookseller