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The Great War scarred both the people and the popular imagination of Europe. No previous war matched it in scale, brutality and futility.
The course of events has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However this impressive book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of the conflict's impact: strategic, political, social and cultural.
Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assassination, misunderstanding and differing national war-aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences:
#Mobilisation had a massive impact both on soldiers and female civilians, producing radical changes to people's way of life which stimulated political change
#Science and technology created a new brand of industrialised warfare and were accelerated by the imperative of victory
# The insecurity and strain of war created dissidence and mutiny, engendering revolution in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia.
The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers and changed the balance of power, influenced the arts, national memory and political thought.
The reach of this account is global, showing how a conflict amongst European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embrace Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States. This is a bold and original book, offering a thematic study of a war that was famously, and quite rightly, labelled as 'the seminal event of the twentieth century'.
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Ian Beckett is an internationally renowned specialist on the Great War. His publications include such acclaimed titles as Ypres : The Last Battle , 1914 (2004). The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (2003), and A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (with Keith Simpson) (1985)
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'admirable and valuable Beckett's erudition is remarkable' "History Today" "a first-rate study, packed with information, well-written and attractively priced" Jeremy Black, "History" "an interesting and useful book" "Soldiers of the Queen" "Beckett is a great military historian and a very fine writer and I happen to agree with almost everything he writes here." Bob Wyatt, "Stand to!", January 2002 No. 63 "..the cutting edge of scholarship on the great War...highly recommended.." David R Woodward, Marshall University, The Journal of Military History
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- PublisherPrentice Hall
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0582322480
- ISBN 13 9780582322486
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages508
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