The Great War : Western Front and Home Front

Tooley, Hunt 1955- (author.).

Summary: "This revised and updated introduction to World War One crosses the boundaries of national histories to examine the various connections between the 400-mile-long Western Front and the home fronts of the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and the USA. Incorporating recent research, Hunt Tooley rethinks the patterns of war, society, culture and politics in the early twentieth-century"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781137471260
ISBN: 9781137471253
ISBN: 1137471255
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Physical Description: print
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Edition: 2nd edition.
Publisher: London ; Palgrave, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revised and updated edition of: The Western Front, battleground and home front in the First World War / Hunt Tooley, 2003.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-312) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Origins, Preconditions, Outbreak -- Mobility and Unity -- Stalemate and Mobilization, 1915/1916 -- Innovation, Persuasion, Centralization -- The Crucible of War: 1916 -- 1917: New Strains, New War -- Transformations: Politics, Culture, Warfare -- Collapse, Armistice, Conclusions.