The Cambridge History of the First World War 3 Volume Paperback Set (3 Paperback books)

Edited by Jay Winter

ISBN 10: 1316600661 / ISBN 13: 9781316600665

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2016

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1st edition. 2340 pages. 9.00x6.00x4.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cambridge History of the First World War 3 Volume Paperback Set (3 Paperback books)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316600661
• ISBN 13: 9781316600665
• Binding: 3 Paperback books
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 4.55 kilograms

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Synopsis

The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work, which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the field, the volumes provide a transnational guide to the course of war and how the dynamics of conflict unfolded throughout the world. Volume 1 surveys the military history, showing the brutal realities of a global war among industrialised powers, whilst Volumes 2 and 3 explore the social, economic, cultural and political challenges that the war presented to politicians, industrialists, soldiers and civilians. Written by a team of leading international historians, the volumes together reveal the ways in which the war transcended the boundaries of Europe, subsequently to transform the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas, just as much as Europe itself.

About the Author

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He came to Yale from Cambridge where he took his doctorate and where he taught history from 1979 to 2001 and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995); Remembering War (2006) and Dreams of Peace and Freedom (2006). In 1997, he received an Emmy award for the best documentary series of the year as co-producer and co-writer of 'The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century', an eight-hour series broadcast on PBS and the BBC, and shown subsequently in 28 countries. He is one of the founders of the Historial de la grande guerre, the international museum of the Great War, in Péronne, Somme, France. His biography of René Cassin, written with Antoine Prost, published by Fayard in French in 2011, will appear in an English edition in 2013, published by Cambridge University Press.