First World War Books
John Wiley & Sons Britain France and the Financing of the First World War
Book SynopsisFighting the First World War consumed lives, material, and money. Millions died; more suffered. This work traces the financial contours of the war, which crippled France financially, leaving Britain, itself weakened, to contest international financial leadership with the United States, the principal beneficiary of the war.Trade Review"First-rate scholarship and methodology. This book adds substantially to our knowledge of the allied war effort during the First World War. It is exceptionally well-grounded and its documentary basis far exceeds any other book dealing with the related topics. Horn breaks new ground in the diversity of his sources and the detail with which he treats the topic This will be a welcome and useful addition to the field." Keith Neilson, Department of History, Royal Military College "This is a very fine, well-argued, and exceptionally well-grounded analysis of the financial aspects of the allied war effort... most useful addition to the scholarly literature."--The Economic History Review, August 2003
£32.40
McGill-Queen's University Press The Fighting Newfoundlander
Book SynopsisThe standard history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "Blue Puttees" - and their heroic efforts during World War I available again
£35.10
John Wiley & Sons The Great War as I Saw It
Book SynopsisA classic work, first published in 1922 and now back in print, presents a unique account of life at the front.
£20.69
University of British Columbia Press Fighting from Home
Book SynopsisIn Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada's war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses based first and foremost in a sense of local identity.Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war. Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.Trade Review"Fighting from Home is an essential contribution to Canadian military and social history. It very successfully reveals the heartfelt response of one community to a time of great challenge. Serge Durfinger's innovative work transforms this story of ordinary people in wartime into a nuanced analysis that will strike a chord with a broad audience." - Roch Legault, author of La Premiere Guerre Mondiale et le Canada: Contributions sociomilitaires quebecoises"Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Studying War at the Local Level1 Forging a Community2 Once More into the Breach3 City Hall Goes to War4 The People’s Response5 Institutions and Industry6 Family and Social Dislocation7 The Political War8 Peace and ReconstructionConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Crisis of Conscience
Book SynopsisThe First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those who saw military service as incompatible with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis of Conscience is the first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War. The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.Trade ReviewShaw's mammoth research has produced a well-written study that looks at the conscientious objectors (COs) created by Canada's Military Service Act of 1917. Summing Up: Recommended. -- J. L. Granatstein, Emeritus, Canadian War Museum * CHOICE, December 2009 Vol. 47 No. 04 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Responsibilities of Citizenship: Conscientious Objection and the Government2 Days of Anxiety: Conscientious Objection within the Historic Peace Churches3 An Insidious Enemy within the Gates: Objection among the Smaller Sects4 Exemption from Religion on Religious Grounds: Conscientious Objection outside Pacifist Denominations5 Holier than Thou: Images of Conscientious ObjectorsConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Crisis of Conscience
Book SynopsisThe First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those who saw military service as incompatible with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis of Conscience is the first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War. The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.Trade ReviewShaw's mammoth research has produced a well-written study that looks at the conscientious objectors (COs) created by Canada's Military Service Act of 1917. Summing Up: Recommended. -- J. L. Granatstein, Emeritus, Canadian War Museum * CHOICE, December 2009 Vol. 47 No. 04 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Responsibilities of Citizenship: Conscientious Objection and the Government2 Days of Anxiety: Conscientious Objection within the Historic Peace Churches3 An Insidious Enemy within the Gates: Objection among the Smaller Sects4 Exemption from Religion on Religious Grounds: Conscientious Objection outside Pacifist Denominations5 Holier than Thou: Images of Conscientious ObjectorsConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press From Victoria to Vladivostok Canadas Siberian
Book SynopsisUncovers the forgotten story of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force – sent to Russia in 1918 as part of an Allied intervention to defeat Bolshevism – despite the objections of many Canadians who were sympathetic to the goals of the Russian Revolution.Trade ReviewBenjamin Isitt’s fascinating study of the Canadian contribution to the military expedition to Siberia designed to crush Lenin’s nascent Communist state punches a large hole in how much of Canada’s chattering class conceives of the country. -- Nathan M. Greenfield * Time Literary Supplement Review *Short, inglorious, hugely unpopular at the time and largely forgotten now: most Canadians probably have no idea that, once upon a time, this country invaded Russia ... Isitt’s extensive analysis of why we were there – mostly trying to deprive revolutionary workers at home of an international beacon – is convincing, as is his ironic conclusion: the blatant class warfare of the expedition did more to incite radicalism at home than it did to suppress it in Russia. Less than six months after the Victoria mutiny, a rising tide of industrial unionism would spark the Winnipeg General Strike. -- Brian Bethune * Macleans.ca *The story of 4,200 Canadian soldiers sailing from British Columbia to the Russian Far East is told in From Victoria to Vladivostok, a fascinating account by the historian Benjamin Isitt. -- Tom Hawthorn * "Mutiny Suppressed, a Siberian Expedition Goes Bust," Globe and Mail *At a time where our mission in Afghanistan is evolving, and leaders come to grips with the 'Afghanization' of the military effort there; and, where the future of Canada’s and the international community’s involvement in Libya is being widely discussed ... this book highlights many lessons concerning strategic objectives, one being military intervention, and the necessity for public support for same. Highly recommended. -- Colonel Peter Williams * Canadian Army Journal, Vol 14.1, 2012 *Now the Vladivostok story can be known in detail from the excellent research of Benjamin Isitt, in his new book From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19, a fascinating and wide-ranging account. -- Stephen Osborne * Geist 81 *[A] fascinating study of the canadian contribution to the military expedition to Siberia. -- Nathan M. Greenfield * Time Literary Supplement Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Why Siberia?Part 1: Canada’s Road to Siberia1 1917: A Breach in the Allied Front2 Vladivostok: 19173 The Road to Intervention4 Mobilization5 Departure DayPart 2: To Vladivostok and Back6 Vladivostok: 19197 “Up Country” and Evacuation8 AfterwordConclusionAppendicesNotes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Veterans with a Vision Canadas War Blinded in
Book SynopsisIlluminates the challenges faced by Canada’s war-blinded veterans and outlines the history of the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded, an advocacy group for all Canadian veterans and blind citizens.Trade ReviewVeterans with a Vision is a must read for historians interested in the social impact of war on Canadian society. It is well written, thoroughly researched, soundly organized, and poignantly relevant as Canada prepares to rehabilitate a new generation of veterans in the post-Afghanistan era. -- Alex Souchen, University of Western Ontario * Canadian Military History Journal *Durflinger successfully illustrates the important contributions made by war blinded veterans to the creation of national institutions and celebrates the men who achieved personal success in spite of their disability. In spite of minor reservations, Veterans with a Vision makes important contributions to the field of veterans’ studies, the development of the Canadian state, and will be a useful work for scholars of twentieth century Canada. -- Brian MacDowall, York University * Historire sociale - Social History, Vol. XLV, No 89 *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 Canada’s First War Blinded, 1899-19182 The Sir Arthur Pearson Club of War Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, 1919-293 The Years of Struggle, 1930-394 Rehabilitating the Blinded Casualties of the Second World War, 1939-505 Older and Wiser: Canada’s War Blinded in the Aftermath of War, 1945-706 Twilight, 1971-2002ConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
£73.95
MN - University of British Columbia Press Veterans with a Vision Canadas War Blinded in Peace and War Studies in Canadian Military History
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University of British Columbia Press Death or Deliverance
Book SynopsisSoldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as brutal and inflexible, and social memories of this system of frontline justice have inspired modern movements to seek pardons for soldiers executed on the battlefield.In this revealing look at military law in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Teresa Iacobelli brings to light not only the trials of 25 Canadian soldiers who were executed but also the untold cases of 197 men sentenced to death but spared. Looking beyond stories of callous generals and quick executions, Iacobelli reveals a disciplinary system capable of thoughtful review and compassion for the individual soldier.Published to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, Death or Deliverance reconsiders an important and unexamined chapter in the history of both a war and a nation.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Competing Ideologies2 Military Law: An Overview3 The Crimes4 The Court Martial Process5 The Confirmation Process6 The Campaign for PardonsConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Unwanted Warriors
Book SynopsisUnwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada's first casualties of the Great War men who tried to enlist but were deemed unfit for service by medical examiners. Condemned as shirkers for not being in uniform, rejected volunteers faced severe ostracism. Nagging guilt, coupled with self-doubt about their social and physical worth, led many of these men to divorce themselves from society ... or worse.Nic Clarke draws on the service files of 3,400 rejected volunteers to examine the deleterious effects that socially constructed norms of health and fitness had on individual men and Canadian society. He considers the mechanics of the military medical examination, the psychical and psychological characteristics that the authorities believed made a fighting man, and how evaluations changed as the war dragged on. He also brings to light the experiences of those who deliberately claimed disability to avoid service a minority within the large population of rejected volunteTrade Review...highly recommended for students of the Great War. -- Mark Humphries, Wilfred Laurier University * Canadian Military History, Vol 27, Issue 2 *In Nic Clarke’s well-researched and well-written Unwanted Warriors: The Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the historian at the Canadian War Museum has provided his readers with an illuminating study pertaining to Canada and the First World War based largely on previously unexamined sources … Clarke provides his readers with a new way of looking at recruitment, loyalty, duty, casualties, and conscription in Canada between 1914 and 1919. -- Jordan A.S. Chase * Ontario History *This book is an interesting and very worthy addition to World War I historiography. -- Peter L. Belmonte, author of Forgotten Soldiers of World War I: America’s Immigrant Doughboys * Army History, No. 109 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Grading Blocks of Meat: The Fit and the Unfit2 No Longer Cause for Rejection3 An Imperfect System4 Clashing Concepts of Fitness5 Not Visibly Different: Describing the Rejected6 Uncounted Casualties: The Costs of Rejection7 Claiming Disability to Avoid Military ServiceConclusionAppendices, Notes, Bibliography
£61.50
University of British Columbia Press This Small Army of Women Canadian Volunteer
Book SynopsisThis Small Army of Women restores a forgotten contingent of nursing volunteers to the historical record, showcasing their dedication amid the carnage of war and their sometimes uneasy relationship with nursing professionals.Trade ReviewLinda J Quiney’s This Small Army of Women documents the Canadian and Newfoundland volunteer nurses in WW1. The book is an interesting mix of facts, figures and analysis, interspersed with personal stories of these Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses – VADs. This Small Army of Women is another good addition to the recent scholarship on the role of medical women in the war. * Great War 100 Reads *Linda Quiney has written a carefully researched, lively, and accessible book. Both historians and general readers will value its compelling story of a group of courageous women whose accomplishments have been largely neglected in histories of the First World War. -- Mark J. Crowley, Harvard University * Michigan War Review Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 This Ardent Band of Ladies: Birth of the Canadian VAD Movement2 Enthusiastic and Anxious: Mobilizing the Voluntary Nursing Service3 Every Woman Is a Nurse: Framing the Image of the VAD4 No Time for Sentiment: Making a Useful Contribution5 Saying Goodbye: Forgetting, Remembering, and Moving OnConclusionAppendicesNotes; Bibliography; Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Engaging the Line
Book SynopsisFor decades, people living in adjacent communities along the CanadaUS border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened this way of life by restricting the movement of people and goods across the border. Many Canadians resented the new regulations introduced by their provincial and federal governments, deriding them as outside influences that created friction where none had existed before. Engaging the Line examines responses to wartime regulations in several border communities, including Windsor, Ontario; Detroit, Michigan; and White Rock, British Columbia. This book brings to life the repercussions for these communities and offers readers a glimpse at the origins of our modern, highly secured border by tracing the shifting relationship between citizens and the state during wartime.Trade ReviewFor residents of Windsor, the entire border-crossing experience had changed dramatically since 1914, when immigration authorities limited their interrogations to visible and undesirable racial groups, criminals, prostitutes, and people with obvious mental and physical illnesses. Now a fifth-generation Anglo-Saxon Windsor resident with family living in Ypsilanti and a job in downtown Detroit could expect the same kind of attention. All of this, of course, was designed to ensure that Canadian men of military age did their duty and to keep the people of Windsor – by that point witnesses to the work of Detroit-based enemy terrorists – safe from German American raiders and saboteurs. * From Chapter 2 of Engaging the Line *Engaging the Line is a significant contribution to North American border studies. It reveals that the intensity of Canadian nationalism varied by location, which in turn indicates Canada’s differing regional histories and diversity and duration of settler experience. Its exploration of the regional nuances of “crossing culture” also adds to our understanding of the impact of war on the home front. -- Keith Regular * The Ormsby Review *Engaging the Line blends political, social, and cultural history in order to assess how global developments in the first decades of the twentieth century reshaped the boundary and relationship between the USA and Canada. -- Holly M. Karibo, Oklahoma State University * International Journal *Engaging The Line is a smart, crisp account of the First World War’s impact on border life. The topic is not merely timely but compelling … Engaging The Line is likeable and meticulously researched, a warm account of an era we left behind. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan1 “Brothers Once More”: Relations between Windsor and Detroit2 “Part and Parcel”: Administering the Windsor-Detroit BorderPart 2: St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine3 The “Ties that Bind”: Relations between St. Stephen and Calais4 “A Very Convenient Arrangement”: Administering the St. Stephen–Calais BorderPart 3: White Rock, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington5 “God Save the King”: Relations between White Rock and Blaine6 Booze and Bandits: Administering the White Rock–Blaine BorderConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Engaging the Line
Book SynopsisFor decades, people living in adjacent communities along the CanadaUS border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened this way of life by restricting the movement of people and goods across the border. Many Canadians resented the new regulations introduced by their provincial and federal governments, deriding them as outside influences that created friction where none had existed before. Engaging the Line examines responses to wartime regulations in several border communities, including Windsor, Ontario; Detroit, Michigan; and White Rock, British Columbia. This book brings to life the repercussions for these communities and offers readers a glimpse at the origins of our modern, highly secured border by tracing the shifting relationship between citizens and the state during wartime.Trade ReviewFor residents of Windsor, the entire border-crossing experience had changed dramatically since 1914, when immigration authorities limited their interrogations to visible and undesirable racial groups, criminals, prostitutes, and people with obvious mental and physical illnesses. Now a fifth-generation Anglo-Saxon Windsor resident with family living in Ypsilanti and a job in downtown Detroit could expect the same kind of attention. All of this, of course, was designed to ensure that Canadian men of military age did their duty and to keep the people of Windsor – by that point witnesses to the work of Detroit-based enemy terrorists – safe from German American raiders and saboteurs. * From Chapter 2 of Engaging the Line *Engaging the Line is a significant contribution to North American border studies. It reveals that the intensity of Canadian nationalism varied by location, which in turn indicates Canada’s differing regional histories and diversity and duration of settler experience. Its exploration of the regional nuances of “crossing culture” also adds to our understanding of the impact of war on the home front. -- Keith Regular * The Ormsby Review *Engaging the Line blends political, social, and cultural history in order to assess how global developments in the first decades of the twentieth century reshaped the boundary and relationship between the USA and Canada. -- Holly M. Karibo, Oklahoma State University * International Journal *Engaging The Line is a smart, crisp account of the First World War’s impact on border life. The topic is not merely timely but compelling … Engaging The Line is likeable and meticulously researched, a warm account of an era we left behind. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan1 “Brothers Once More”: Relations between Windsor and Detroit2 “Part and Parcel”: Administering the Windsor-Detroit BorderPart 2: St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine3 The “Ties that Bind”: Relations between St. Stephen and Calais4 “A Very Convenient Arrangement”: Administering the St. Stephen–Calais BorderPart 3: White Rock, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington5 “God Save the King”: Relations between White Rock and Blaine6 Booze and Bandits: Administering the White Rock–Blaine BorderConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press For Home and Empire
Book SynopsisFor Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization across the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. As communities organized to raise recruits or donate funds, their efforts strengthened communal bonds, but they also reinforced class, race, and gender boundaries. Which jurisdiction should provide for a soldier's wife if she moved from Hobart to northern Tasmania? Should Welsh women in Vancouver purchase comforts for local soldiers or for Welsh soldiers in the British Army? Should Maori volunteers enlist with their home regiment or with a separate battalion? Voluntary efforts reflected how community members understood their relationship to one another, to their dominion, and to the Empire. Steve Marti examines the motives and actions of those involved in the voluntary war effort, applying the framework of settler colonialism to reveal the geographical and social divides that separated communities as they organized for war.Trade ReviewSteve Marti’s lively and informative monograph For Home and Empire: Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War will be a worthwhile addition to the reading list of anyone interested in understanding the impact of the Great War on the British Empire. -- Patrick H. Brennan * Canadian Journal of History *Marti weaves together multiple strands of historiography to present fresh insights into the wartime societies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada...[his] level of detail and meticulously supported arguments offer little room for critique. -- Jordan Beavis, University of Newcastle, Australia * Canadian Military History *Marti’s research is impressive and suggestive, and the comparative approach will add substantially to further efforts to understand the Great War in the British Dominions. -- J.L. Grantastein * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Dominion over War: Local Volunteers, Dominion Mobilization, and the Imperial War Effort2 Hands across the Sea: Greater Britain, New France, and the Ties to Home and Homeland3 Far from Home: Race and the Boundaries of Communal Mobilization4 Aliens or Allies: Southern and Eastern European Immigrants and the Bonds of Military Service5 As Obsolete as the Buffalo and the Tomahawk: Assimilation, Autonomy, and the Mobilization of Indigenous CommunitiesConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£52.70
University of British Columbia Press Portraits of Battle
Book SynopsisAll Canadians are taught about Vimy Ridge. But that celebrated victory was just one battle among many to shape the country's experience of the First World War.Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the war. Contributors to this thoughtful collection consider the range of Canadians touched by war soldiers and their loved ones, deserters, nurses, Indigenous people, those injured in body or mind raising fundamental questions about the nature of conflict and memory.These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials fill in what is often missing from accounts of the Great War. In the process, they provide a more nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of that war in Canadian history.Trade Review"Portraits of Battle presents the past as a complex lived experience: a story of people from a broad range of backgrounds wrestling with their own notions of service, community, and sacrifice." -- Marc Milner, University of New Brunswick. * University of Toronto Quarterly. *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Peter Farrugia1 The View from Above: A Canadian Pilot in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette / Graham Broad2 “When Told to Advance, They Advanced”: War Culture and the CEF / Jonathan F. Vance3 The Voiceless Dead: Francis Jenkins, Regina Trench, and Living and Dying on the Western Front / Kyle Falcon4 “Going over the Ground Again”: Major Samuel Bothwell, 1st CMR, and Vimy Ridge / Peter Farrugia5 Soldier or Ward? Hill 70 and the Lived Experience of Private Wilfred Lickers / Evan J. Habkirk6 Talbot Papineau: The Life and Death of an Imperial Man / Geoffrey Hayes7 Fallen Sisters: Gender, Military Service, and Death in Canada’s First World War / Sarah Glassford8 Religion and the Great War: The Canadian Experience / Gordon L. Heath9 Replacing Leaders: Lieutenant Roy Duplissie and the Hundred Days Campaign from the D-Q to the Marcoing Line / Lee Windsor10 “Scars upon My Heart”: Arnold and Clarence Westcott, Brothers and Soldiers / Cynthia Comacchio11 Desertion and Punishment in the CEF during the 100 Days / Teresa IacobelliConclusion / Peter FarrugiaSelect Bibliography; Index
£26.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press Boosters and Barkers Financing Canadas
Book Synopsis“Back him up! Buy Victory Bonds.” Boosters and Barkers examines the unrelenting financial demands of Canadian participation in the First World War, exploring the aims, methods, and implications of securing public support. Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Getting the Money to Finance Canada’s War1 Business as Usual, 19142 Inching Toward Innovation, 1915–163 Crises and Victories, 1917–184 Legacies in Peacetime, 1919–20sPart 2: From Broadside to Vaudeville in the War-Loan Campaigns5 The Dominion War Loans, 1915–176 The First Victory Loan, 19177 Pandemic and Peace, 19188 Thrift, War Savings, Markets, and the Clean-Up Campaign of 19199 The Aftermath, 1919–20sPart 3: Newfoundland and the Canadian Connection10 Finance in Newfoundland and the Campaign of 1918Part 4: Consensus and Resistance11 The Limits of PatriotismPart 5: The Images, Sounds, and Words of the War Loans12 Selling through Posters, Cartoons, and Illustrations13 Selling through Film, Theatre, Music, and WordsConclusion Appendixes; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
£73.80
Cornell University Press Reputation and International Politics
Book SynopsisBy approaching an important foreign policy issue from a new angle, Jonathan Mercer comes to a startling, controversial discovery: a nation's reputation is not worth fighting for.Trade ReviewA book full of fascinating and suggestive insights into the cognitive processes relevant to international relations. -- Steve Rosen * American Political Science Review *Mercer's argument is a welcome addition to the theoretical literature because it represents the first clear statement of a non-rational, choice-based theory of reputations. -- Paul Huth * Security Studies *Mercer's startling challenge to accepted wisdom deserves wide attention. -- Patrick Morgan * The Mershon Review *This imaginative and provocative book is an important contribution to a long-neglected question and is essential reading for any historian or international relations theorist interested in the role of reputation in international politics. -- Jack Levy * International History Review *This excellent book is well written, detailed, and thought-provoking. * Choice *
£44.65
Cornell University Press The Impossible Border
Book SynopsisBetween 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 posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the border from the new Polish state, Russian émigrés poured into the German capital, and East European Jews sought protection in Germany from the upheaval in their homelands. Nor was the movement in one direction only: German Freikorps sought to found a soldiers'' colony in Latvia, and a group of German socialists planned to settle in a Soviet factory town.In The Impossible Border, Annemarie H. Sammartino explores these waves of migration and their consequences for Germany. Migration became a flashpoint for such controversies as the relative importance of ethnic and cultural belonging, the interaction of nationalism and political ideologies, and whether or not Germany could serve as a place of refuTrade ReviewIn this excellent book, Annemarie H. Sammartino offers a lively transnational investigation of how a shifting eastern border and mass migration contributed to a 'crisis of sovereignty' in Germany during and immediately after the First World War.... She succeeds brilliantly not only in showing how Weimar was weakened by its inability to control its eastern border or achieve ideological coherence in its conception of people, state and territory, but also in explaining how for the political right-wing, the deceptively simple criterion of race and longing for a utopian east together led to an abandonment of territorial frontiers and the adoption of a new, ultimately destructive national project based on boundaries of blood. -- Alexander Watson * German History *Sammartino's title hardly does justice to the scope of her short but inspiring, well-written, well-researched, and thought-provoking work. As she explains, borders define differences determined by various mixtures of history, culture, and geography. Sammartino tests Hannah Arendt's theory of totalitarianism as a transnational form of analysis through the lens of the fluidity of borders throughout eastern Europe during and after WWI. Where context defines borders, German victory in the East inspired hope in an expanded German state, whereas defeat redefined the East as a final frontier to escape the ignominy of Germany's postwar collapse.... Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Crisis of Sovereignty 1. "German Brothers": War and Migration 2. "Now We Were the Border": The Freikorps Baltic Campaign 3. Socialist Pioneers on the Soviet Frontier: Ansiedlung Ost 4. "We Who Suffered Most": The Immigration of Germans from Poland 5. "A Flooding of the Reich with Foreigners": The Frustrations of Border Control 6. Anti-Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Prisoners of War 7. "A Firm Inner Connection to Germany": Naturalization Policy 8. Tolerance and Its Limits: Russians, Jews, and Asylum Conclusion: The Legacy of CrisisAppendix: Maps— German Gains in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March Prospective German Settlements in the Former Russian Empire German Territorial Losses after World War IBibliography Index
£34.20
Cornell University Press The Barons Cloak
Book SynopsisWillard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire's final decades through the arc of the life of Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg, which spanned the vast reaches of Eurasia.Trade Review[The Baron's Cloak] demonstrates just how important an understanding of the multinational and frontier aspects of the imperial state are to a comprehensive view of its last years, and perhaps even more importantly, to the transition from tsarist to Soviet empire.... Perhaps most significant is this work's contribution to our understanding of the process of imperial collapse through its analysis ofthe faliure of Ungern's efforts in Mongolia, in particular his attempt to reunite the various nationalities of the Russian state and reinstate imperial rule by bringing them together under the banner of loyalty to the monarchy. * The Russian Review *The Baron's Cloak succeeds in drawing our gaze away from the metropolitan centres in which we conventionally chart the upheavals of the 'Russian Revolution' to a periphery that turns out to have been far from peripheral. The revolution was an intrinsically imperial affair. The Baron's Cloak—a vastmulti-ethnic and multi-confessional state pulled apart by messy conflicts across fractured frontiers; a new one forged and contested by men and women with their own multilayered local, regional and imperial identities. Willard Sunderland's innovative analysis of the dynamics which both destroyed the Russian Empire and shaped its Soviet successor is a triumph of scholarship and imagination. * Times Literary Supplement *A specialist on the Russian Empire and borderlands, the historian Willard Sunderland in The Baron's Cloak draws on his considerable talents as a storyteller to craft a fluidly written and engaging account of the twilight of the Russian Empire as it succumbed to the hard-hitting blows of war, revolution, and civil war. * Journal of Modern History *In this magnificent book, Willard Sunderland, Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, invites the reader to perceive the Russian Empire from a different perspective. Rather than surveying it from the vantage point of 'policies, structures, or ideologies, as historians usually do,' we should step into the shoes of imperial people and look for another set of truths.... The result is an engaging combination of micro-history, historical geography, and insightful travelogue. * Journal of Historical Geography *Many scholars have analyzed the peculiar dynamics that make up the vast, diverse world of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union, but few have produced works as engaging and insightful as Willard Sunderland's book, The Baron’s Cloak.... Centered on one man, the Russian-German noble, Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg, Sunderland’s work is a brilliant portrait of the Russian Empire and its collapse in the face of revolution and civil war. With eloquence and wit, The Baron’s Cloak brings a complex historical epoch to life and provides a highly readable primer for anyone seeking to understand the Russian Empire and the legacies of imperial rule across Eurasia. * Origins *Rare is the book this creative, engaging, and written with such unpretentious grace. The baron of the title is Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.... After the Bolsheviks took power, Ungern-Sternberg attempted to establish an independent state in Mongolia — a monarchy that he himself would rule. In 1921, that dream was crushed by the Red Army, which captured and executed the baron. Sunderland does a remarkable job of blending Ungern-Sternberg's life story with an exquisite portrait of the far-flung reaches of the Russian empire, producing an utterly absorbing tale of one man encountering historic change in almost incomprehensibly complex surroundings. * Foreign Affairs *The result is a splendidly readable microhistory that brings together much excellent recent work on the multiethnic imperial history of Russia—a literature to which Sunderland has been a leading contributor to show how 'the personal experience of empire has much to tell us about the bigger picture.... In sum, this is an exemplary and engaging study that newcomers to Russian history and the broader history of empires will find accessible and interesting—and that more seasoned readers will find enormously insightful. It deserves a very wide readership. * World History Connected *This book is a genuine page-turner and a scrupulously researched microhistory, a finely-stitched tapestry that captures well the loosely construed unity, diversity, and plural identities of Russia's borderlands of empire.... The book has lucid and elegant prose, and a deep sense of place. The Baron’s Cloak is full of insight and logistical sophistication, and Sunderland proves equal to the task. The final result is a gripping Bildungsreise (educational journey) and a model text for how historians should interrogate sources, depict the back-stories of scenes, change course, reconstruct identities, and tentatively formulate new questions about world history. * American Historical Review *This work is an imaginative kind of history in how it reveals the historian's craft, a sort of 'laying bare his technique,' as the Russian formalists who emerged from this same period would have expressed it. Sunderland not only paraphrases or translates from archival documents but he often traces how those documents got to the archive and what sorts of notes and marginalia he finds in them. He also reminds us how incomplete the archival record on his subject is, and he does a very conscientious job of finding alternative sources to help us better enter [his subject's] many intersecting and overlapping worlds. The Baron's Cloak is beautifully written and a wonderful contribution to borderlands history, to the history of empire and nation, and to the history of war, revolution, and civil war. * Slavic Review *The Baron's Cloak offers an important new interpretation of key issues in the late imperial period from colonialism and modernization to Russification and nationalism. The Baron's Cloak is a delight to read, and Sunderland's ability to combine forceful argument with a careful historian's circumspection is admirable. * Ab Imperio *Table of ContentsPreface Timeline Introduction 1. Graz 2. Estland 3. St. Petersburg, Manchuria, St. Petersburg 4. Beyond the Baikal 5. The Black Dragon River 6. Kobdo 7. War Land 8. The Ataman's Domain 9. Urga 10. Kiakhta 11. Red Siberia Conclusion
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Cornell University Press The Impossible Border
Book Synopsis"An important and fascinating study of the history of migration across Weimar Germany's eastern border that addresses a number of key aspects of the history of Weimar Germany."—Richard Bessel, University of YorkTrade ReviewIn this excellent book, Annemarie H. Sammartino offers a lively transnational investigation of how a shifting eastern border and mass migration contributed to a 'crisis of sovereignty' in Germany during and immediately after the First World War.... She succeeds brilliantly not only in showing how Weimar was weakened by its inability to control its eastern border or achieve ideological coherence in its conception of people, state and territory, but also in explaining how for the political right-wing, the deceptively simple criterion of race and longing for a utopian east together led to an abandonment of territorial frontiers and the adoption of a new, ultimately destructive national project based on boundaries of blood. -- Alexander Watson * German History *Sammartino's title hardly does justice to the scope of her short but inspiring, well-written, well-researched, and thought-provoking work. As she explains, borders define differences determined by various mixtures of history, culture, and geography. Sammartino tests Hannah Arendt's theory of totalitarianism as a transnational form of analysis through the lens of the fluidity of borders throughout eastern Europe during and after WWI. Where context defines borders, German victory in the East inspired hope in an expanded German state, whereas defeat redefined the East as a final frontier to escape the ignominy of Germany's postwar collapse.... Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Crisis of Sovereignty 1. "German Brothers": War and Migration 2. "Now We Were the Border": The Freikorps Baltic Campaign 3. Socialist Pioneers on the Soviet Frontier: Ansiedlung Ost 4. "We Who Suffered Most": The Immigration of Germans from Poland 5. "A Flooding of the Reich with Foreigners": The Frustrations of Border Control 6. Anti-Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Prisoners of War 7. "A Firm Inner Connection to Germany": Naturalization Policy 8. Tolerance and Its Limits: Russians, Jews, and Asylum Conclusion: The Legacy of CrisisAppendix: Maps— German Gains in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March Prospective German Settlements in the Former Russian Empire German Territorial Losses after World War IBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Ideology of the Offensive
Book SynopsisJack 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 present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military strategies even though there was considerable evidence to support the notion that much greater advantage lay with defensive strategies. The author argues that organizational biases inherent in military strategists'' attitudes make war more likely by encouraging offensive postures even when the motive is self-defense.Drawing on new historical evidence of the specific circumstances surrounding French, German, and Russian strategic policy, Snyder demonstrates that it is not only rational analysis that determines strategic doctrine, but also the attitudes of military planners. Snyder argues that the use of rational calculation often falls victim to the pursuit of organizational interests suchTrade ReviewOne of the best comparative surveys of the war plans and strategic thinking of the General Staffs from the Franco-Prussian War to 1914.... An ambitious and interesting book both in its historical scope and in its theoretical implications for military decision making. * Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science *Snyder has made a significant contribution to strategic thought. * Military Review *This is a penetrating account, filled with valuable theoretical insights, of the military planning in France, Germany, and Russia on the eve of the First World War. Using the analytical approach of controlled comparison, Jack Snyder examines the role of doctrinal and organizational biases in military decision making and operational planning.... Snyder is superb in detailing Russian war planning in this era, providing the best account in English on this topic. * Orbis *
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University of Toronto Press The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of
Book SynopsisThese vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less distinct conceptual 'languages,' within any one of which a literary problem takes on a special solution. The Alexander Lectures for 1952.
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University of Nebraska Press To the Last Salute
Book SynopsisDescribes life as captain of Austro-Hungarian U-boats in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, emerging by turn as the Imperial Austrian naval officer, the witty observer of international politics, and indefatigable and heartbroken patriot opposing the Allied enemy. This title offers a combination of human interest, and life-and-death adventure.Trade Review"[von Trapp] almost certainly always tried to put his best foot forward, and he emerges from his account as a man of great skill, considerable compassion ... and sufficient tact and tolerance to handle the kind of polyglot crews that sailed for the Dual Monarchy. [H]e became the highest scoring Austro-Hungarian submariner, despite equipment that was sometimes more dangerous to him and his men than to the enemy. He fought on to the end, knowing that the Dual Monarchy he served so well was crumbling."-Booklist Booklist "In his personal account, translated by his granddaughter Elizabeth Campbell, von Trapp captures the feeling of a bygone era where chivalry and love of country were paramount... His amazing exploits in the Great War and life-and-death experiences as a commander of various U-boats will enthrall readers."-Military Heritage Military Heritage "[A] lively, amusing, at-times-gripping memoir of naval warfare in the Mediterranean, and U-boat life... One of its fascinating aspects is the glimpse it offers into the multiethnic makeup of this imperial navy, and the admirable attitudes and behavior of a patriotic officer on the losing side of a great conflict."-The Atlantic The Atlantic "Interesting and informative, the text is a rare history of an Austro-Hungarian involved in War... [To the Last Salute] is highly recommended to those interested in the von Trapp family, the musical The Sound of Music, World War I from an Austro-Hungarian view, and U-boats."-Curled Up With a Good Book Curled Up With a Good Book "To the Last Salute is a professional account of submarine operations during World War I by one of the ace skippers of the k-u-k Navy... This work provides an often gripping tale of some long forgotten but interesting naval actions during the Great War."-NYMAS Review NYMAS ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Meet the Real Captain von TrappThe World of To the Last Salute1. Between the Islands2. U-Boats Mobilized3. Léon Gambetta4. Letters5. Envy6. Trip to the Hinterland7. The Bomb Exploded8. Poor Austrians!9. Giuseppe Garibaldi10. Nereide11. The Prize12. Gasoline Stupor13. America Bluffs14. The First Depth Charges15. Heroes16. Curie17. The Oil Spill18. Deck Paint19. Bypassing the Official Channels20. Unrestricted U-Boat War21. Reconstruction in the Arsenal22. The First Steamers23. Transmission of Orders24. Fog25. The Two Greeks26. Salute to Africa27. One Comes, the Other Goes28. Gjenovic29. Otranto30. Loot31. Entertainment on Board32. U-Boat Trap33. Sheet Lightning34. Bravo, Bim!35. Autumn Journey36. Internal Duty37. Intermezzo38. In the East39. The Fire Goes Out40. Durazzo41. To the Last SaluteNotes
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University of Nebraska Press Imagining the Unimaginable
Book SynopsisAs World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture. In this provocative and fascinating work, Aaron J. Cohen shows how World War I changed Russian culture and especially Russian art. A wartime public culture destabilized conventional patterns in cultural politics and aesthetics and fostered a new artistic world by integrating the iconoclastic avant-garde into the art establishment and mass culture. This new wartime culture helped give birth to nonobjective abstraction (including Kazimir Malevich's famous Black Square), which revolutionized modern aesthetics. Of the new institutions, new public behaviors, and new cultural forms that emerged from this artistic engagement with war, some continued, others were reinterpreted, and still others were destroyed during the revolutionary period. Imagining the Unimaginable<Trade Review"This book offers the reader a well-researched and nuanced analysis of the politics and aesthetics of a period and place whose significance is underappreciated."—Andrew M. Nedd, Russian Review"In recent years, works by Hubertus F. Jahn, Peter Gatrell, Peter Holquist, Eric Lohr, Joshua A. Sanborn, Melissa K. Stockdale, and others have expanded our knowledge of World War I's impact in Russia. . . . Cohen's new book adds an important dimension to this historiography, demonstrating that wartime cultural mobilization was more pervasive and more complex than previously understood."—Stephen M. Norris, American Historical Review"This is a carefully framed piece of research that raises important questions about the extent to which the political, economic and cultural conditions of wartime affected the course of modern Russian art."—Rosalind P. Blakesley, Revolutionary Russia"This is a daring book that deftly balances between history and cultural studies. Aaron Cohen mixes the public debates in contemporary newspapers and journals with an analysis of the visual art that this world produced. This leads to a satisfying and intellectually engaging read."—Aaron B. Retish, Europe-Asia Studies"[Cohen's] focused argument that Russian avant-garde painters found their public and forged a closer link to the government in the crucible of the Great War makes an original and important contribution both to art history and to the history of the mobilization for war."—Eric Lohr, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 1. The Wars against Tradition: The Culture of the Art Profession in Russia, 1863-1914 2. In the Storm: Reshaping the Public and the Art World, 1914-1915 3. Love in the Time of Cholera: Russian Art and the Real War, 1915-1916 4. Masters of the Material World: World War I, the Avant-Garde, and the Origins of Non-Objective Art 5. The Revolver and the Brush: The Political Mobilization of Russian Artists through War and Revolution, 1916-1917 Conclusion Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Strange and Formidable Weapon
Book SynopsisThe advent of poison gas in World War I shocked Britons at all levels of society, yet by the end of the conflict their nation was a leader in chemical warfare. Although never used on the home front, poison gas affected almost every segment of British society physically, mentally, or emotionally, proving to be an armament of total war. Through cartoons, military records, novels, treaties, and other sources, Marion Girard examines the varied ways different sectors of British society viewed chemical warfare, from the industrialists who promoted their toxic weapons while maintaining private control of production,to the politicians who used gas while balancing the need for victory with the risk of developing a reputation for barbarity. Although most Britons considered gas a vile weapon and a symptom of the enemy's inhumanity, many eventually condoned its use.The public debates about the future of gas extended to the interwar years, and evidence reveals that the taTrade Review"This well-researched study offers a creative and long-overdue interpretation of the subjects of gas and gas warfare in World War I Britain. . . . Girard marshals an impressive variety of evidence to offer interlocking portraits of gas and gas warfare framed by the observations and experiences of a variety of groups."—Jeffrey S. Reznick, Journal of the History of Medicine"Girard has offered a detailed survey on Britain's reaction to poison gas and scholars of the Great War, technology, and wartime popular culture will find this a strong foundation upon which to conduct further reading or research."—Tim Cook, Journal of Military History"Much of this story has been overlooked in previous work, and Girard has provided an informative account that is based on considerable research in some under-exploited archives."—David Stevenson, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Political Challenge: Descent to Atrocities? 2. The Army’s Experience: New Weapons, New Soldiers 3. The Scientific Divide: Chemists vs. Physicians 4. Whose Business is It?: Dilemmas in the Gas Industry 5. Gas as a Symbol: Visual Images of Chemical Weapons in the Popular Press 6. The Re-Establishment of the Gas Taboo and the Public Debate: Will Gas Destroy the World? Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Every generation needs to be reminded of and taught the heavy price exacted by war."—Murray Polner, History News Network"Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America is a collection of vibrant and diverse sources and voices. It is an excellent starting point for anyone wishing to know more about the subject, a useful tool for those working in the area, and a key resource for those teaching the history of civil liberties, working for peace and the value of dissent in democratic societies."—Rebecca Wynter, Quaker Studies“[This is] an extremely important contribution . . . bringing together sources from both the radical and mainstream aspects of antiwar activism.”—Cecelia Lynch, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics“Experts in the field, Scott Bennett and Charles Howlett provide a valuable new collection of original source documents that provide fresh and insightful understanding of peace activism, dissent and the issue of civil liberties in America in World War I.”—John Whiteclay Chambers II, author of To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America “Accessible to scholars and the general public alike, this wonderful volume brings to life those men and women who envisioned a better world and fought ‘to end all wars.’”—Wendy E. Chmielewski, George R. Cooley Curator, Swarthmore College Peace CollectionTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Peace Organizations2. Socialists, Anarchists, and Wobblies3. Citizen Peace Agitators4. Female Activism and Gendered Peacework5. African American and Ethnic American Antiwar Dissent6. Conscientious Objectors7. Repression and Civil Liberties8. The Cultural Front and Antiwar Protest9. Peace Humanitarianism Abroad10. Aftermath and LegaciesSelected Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Toward the Flame
Book SynopsisChronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the Twenty-eighth Division saw extensive action on the Western Front. This story presents Lieutenant Hervey Allen and his men marching inland from the French coast and the battle for the village of Fismette.Trade Review"This work has been considered by many to be the finest American frontline memoir to come out of World War I. It is powerful and certainly a classic."—Michael D. Hull, ARMY Magazine
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University of Nebraska Press The Lost Battalion
Book SynopsisExemplifies the best of America's involvement in World War I.Trade Review“[In October 1918] the Seventy-seventh American Division attacked in the Argonne. One mixed battalion of companies from two regiments got as far as it could. Germans closed in the rear, surrounding 600 men. Six days later, after incredible hardships, the wounded and an unharmed 194 were relieved. . . . [The authors] have reconstructed every dramatic hour of the six-day siege. . . . Correcting myths, cleaning up official whitewashes, Johnson and Pratt succeed in telling a more dramatic story than all the myths and official embroideries put together.”—New York Times
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University of Nebraska Press Remembering World War I in America
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the American public’s collective memory and common perception of World War I, analyzed from the perspective of the production of cultural artifacts related to the war.Trade Review"By helping us to better understand today the historical obscurity of World War I in America, Lamay Licursi seeks to erase a past of erasure—to replace forgetting with remembering."—Trevor Dodman, First World War Studies“Remembering World War I in America furnishes some sound explanations for why America's second experience with total war—the Civil War being the first—one which saw the nation making an indispensable contribution to victory and emerging as a global power, found so little purchase in the imagination of its citizens.”—Robert Teigrob, American Historical Review “Lamay Licursi’s useful work should be consulted by military, political, and social historians interested in America’s participation in World War I and the interwar years.”—Jeffery S. Underwood, Journal of American History"This well-researched study gives weight to historians' common contention that Americans "simply wanted to forget the war.""—B. T. Browne, Choice"Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi's Remembering World War I in America is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on memory of the Great War."—Mark Folse, H-War"An interesting and thoughtful look at how national memory is constructed."—A. A. Nofi, Strategy Page"The author has done an impressive amount of research in compiling this study, and all those readers interested in how Americans once remembered the Great War will find much to enjoy in its pages."—Roger D. Cunningham, Journal of America’s Military Past"Remembering World War I in America is most impressive in Licursi's extensive archival research on state histories and her investigations into the factual data of publishing figures."—David Rennie, American Literary Realism“Kimberly Lamay Licursi explores with nuance and detail the American cultural memory of the Great War before 1941. Using understudied sources, such as pulp fiction and abandoned state history projects, she deftly shows how the act of ‘forgetting’ the war was based on remembering it in divergent ways. Fascinating and timely reading.”—Stephen R. Ortiz, professor of history at Binghamton University (SUNY) and author of Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics and Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill “I am impressed by the thoroughness with which Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi has combed through archival records related to state-level remembrance projects. And I admire (and regard as a model) the way she grounds her assertions about cultural influence in quantifiable specifics—in inventories of library holdings, recommendations in library journals, and the like.”—Steven K. Trout, professor of English at the University of South Alabama and author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. State War Histories: An Atom of Interest in an Ocean of Apathy 2. War Memoirs: They Pour from Presses Daily 3. War Stories: Fiction Cannot Ignore the Greatest Adventure in a Man’s Life 4. War Films: Shootin’ and Kissin’ Conclusion Appendix 1: Selected Bibliography of World War I Personal Narratives Appendix 2: Selected Bibliography of World War I Novels Notes Bibliography Index
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LSU Press Manipulating the Masses
Book SynopsisTells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state.Trade ReviewA fascinating study into the origins of targeted misinformation and fake news, and the creators who unleashed them on our world out of misguided patriotism." - David Callaway, Former Editor-in-Chief, USA Today"An instant classic. This stunning history of the origins of American propaganda and the information state unveils the threat to self-government that's been with us since World War I. If you care about democracy, this book belongs at the top of your reading list." - Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press, Harvard University"There are fewer more important obligations of government in a democracy to keep citizens informed and to tell the truth. That standard, sadly, has failed at crucial moments in our history and John Maxwell Hamilton's volume recalls the history of a seminal failure. It should open our eyes to shortcomings in what we get as 'public information' and ask us all to demand better from our nation's leaders." - Mike McCurry, Former White House and State Department spokesman; Professor and Director, Public Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary"George Creel and his Committee on Public Information, directed by President Woodrow Wilson, represented a massive and successful effort during WWI to mold opinion in favor of American involvement in the war. Hamilton's book demonstrates that distorted propaganda such as what we saw during the Vietnam War and from today's White House, is nothing new. His story is a mirror into our own times." - Ambassador Theodore Sedgwick, Commissioner, World War I Centennial Commission"This highly-readable, meticulously researched book examines the origins of modern U.S. propaganda, as refined in the Twentieth Century. These practices, well-intended at first, have ended up harming this nation by undermining its democratic principles. Professor Hamilton rings a warning bell that all should hear about the dangers that propaganda, whether from abroad or within our own land, continues to hold for the future of America's open society." - Loch Johnson, Regents Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, University of Georgia"John Hamilton has written an outstanding, timely new book. A century ago, President Woodrow Wilson's Ministry of Public Information was America's first and only propagandistic Ministry of Information. Today, we have deteriorated to darker, diminished discourse with phrases such as 'fake news' by a President who has made tens of thousands of false or misleading public statements since his Inauguration. All of this can be traced to the story Hamilton tells." - Charles Lewis, Founder of the Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists"Manipulating the Masses brilliantly tells the story of President Woodrow Wilson's 1916 re-election campaign and how Wilson used the same techniques to shape public opinion when he took the country into World War I and created the Committee on Public Information. Every public affairs office in government today as well as the private sector's public relations industry owe their birth to Wilson's CPI and what was done there. It's quite a story." - Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher, The Cook Political Report"Both fascinating and troubling, this thoughtful history reveals the roots of the official spin that dominates much of today's news. The blunt title and alarming cover illustration--a 1918 war-bond poster depicting a direct German attack on New York City--make clear the heavy-duty nature of Manipulating the Masses, John Maxwell Hamilton's important history of the establishment during World War I of systematic propaganda as an instrument of American government." - New York Journal of Books"In this excellent book, John Maxwell Hamilton examines the darker side of US president Woodrow Wilson's administration during the First World War. . . . Hamilton provides a detailed account of the CPI's (Committee on Public Information) operations, ranging from propaganda to censorship both at home and abroad. . . . Wilson's legacy was mixed, as Hamilton convincingly demonstrates in this outstanding book." - H-Net Reviews"Some history books make exceptional contributions. Like long-needed highways or bridges, they act as public utilities. Some even do the job with elegance. John Maxwell Hamilton's Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda is such a book: history as public service, delivered with grace and advancing our progress on the vital road to understanding the relationship between government and media in America and, by extension, in the wider world. Hamilton draws on a wide array of archival sources in many countries to tell a simple story: how the United States government used mass communications to advance its foreign policy at home and abroad during World War I. In the past, the subject has been tackled only partially, most prominently by writers with a personal connection to the events in question and to the story's central government agency, the Committee on Public Information (CPI). Moreover, this story has been overshadowed by the memoir of the man who ran the campaign, George Creel. Creel was the modern U.S. government's first great propagandist, with a role so novel that promulgating government propaganda was once known as 'Creeling.' Creel's own account of the process was--no surprise--self-serving. Hamilton's book is a more-than-overdue audit of Creel and his agency. More than that, it illuminates the original sin in the U.S. government's relationship with the media, a foundational mix of spin and distortion that echoes down the decades to our own era of presidential tweets and weaponized media. 'Every element' of today's 'information state,' says Hamilton, 'had antecedents in the CPI.'" - American Purpose
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University of Pennsylvania Press In Uncle Sams Service
Book SynopsisDuring World War I, the first U.S. war in which women were mobilized by the armed services on a mass scale, more than sixteen thousand female personnel served overseas with the American Expeditionary Force. Elite society women—the so-called heiress corps—have dominated the popular perception of women''s service ever since. But Susan Zeiger shows that the majority of these female nurses, clerical workers, telephone operators, and canteen workers were wage-earners whose motives for enlistment ranged from patriotism to economic self-interest, from a sense of adventure to a desire to challenge gender boundaries.In exploring women''s experience of war, Zeiger draws from a wealth of diaries, letters, questionnaires, oral histories, and memoirs, as well as army records. She analyzes the ways women''s wartime service brought to light contradictions in prevailing gender relations at the height of the campaign for women''s suffrage, and she places the stories of servicewomenTrade Review"Zeiger's exemplary book delivers more than its title promises." * Choice *
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Character and Mourning
Book SynopsisIn response to the devastating trauma of World War I, British and American authors wrote about grief. The need to articulate loss inspired moving novels by Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Erin Penner shows how these two modernist novelists took on the challenge of rewriting the literature of mourning for a new and difficult era.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Character and Mourning Woolf Faulkner and the
Book SynopsisIn response to the devastating trauma of World War I, British and American authors wrote about grief. The need to articulate loss inspired moving novels by Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Erin Penner shows how these two modernist novelists took on the challenge of rewriting the literature of mourning for a new and difficult era.Trade ReviewThis is a book well worth reading for Penner’s rich analyses of individual novels, for her extensive knowledge of previous scholarship, and for her reframing of Woolf and Faulkner as writers who should be in conversation and who push us to bring conversations about the form and the ethics of mourning into our present-day world." - Woolf Studies Annual
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Wayne State University Press Hell On Earth
Book SynopsisA literary account of the author's experience in World War I. Hell on Earth is the second book written by Avigdor Hameiri (born Feuerstein, 1890-1970) about his experiences as a Russian prisoner of war during the second half of World War I. Available for the first time to an English-speaking audience, this reality-driven novel is comparable to All Quiet on the Western Front.
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New York University Press Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill How Veteran
Book SynopsisMining the papers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion (AL), this book reveals that veterans actively organized in the years following the war to claim state benefits (such as pensions and bonuses), and strove to articulate a role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New Deal era.Trade Review"This book should be on the reading list of any course that touches upon the 1920s and 1930s. Ortiz examines the pivotal role the bonus question played in stoking the anti-New Deal movement lead by Charles Coughlin and Huey Long and how settling this issue proved essential for FDRs decisive electoral victory in 1936." -- G. Kurt Piehler * Remembering War the American Way *"“Ortiz (Bowling Green State Univ.) has written an interesting account of a neglected component of politics during the New Deal era-- the impact of organized WWI veterans... This book will be required reading for anyone interested in the history of veteran politics and New Deal politics." * CHOICE *"Ortiz's book is an excellent contribution to a historical episode in need of political contextualization." -- Jeremy M. Teigen * Political and Military Sociology *"So much has been written about America in the 1930s that it is hard to say anything new. But, mounting a vigorous argument, Ortiz demonstrates convincingly that scholars have neglected a very important development in this period. Thanks to him, historians will be compelled to rewrite their accounts of the age of Roosevelt." -- William E. Leuchtenburg,author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940"Stimulating, clearly written, and meticulously documented." * The Journal of Military History *"Moving beyond other well documented examples of activism by former servicemen . . . Ortiz traces the fortunes of the two major U.S. veterans organizations, the first the patrician American Legion . . . the second the older, smaller and scrappier Veterans of Foreign Wars." * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Veterans' policy and Veteran Organizations, 1917-1929 2 Rethinking the Bonus March 3 The "New Deal" for Veterans 4 The Bonus Re-emerges 5 "The pro-Bonus party" 6 Veteran politics and the New Deal's political Triumph of 1936 Conclusion: GI Bill Legacies Postscript: A GI Bill for the Twenty-first Century? Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill How Veteran
Book SynopsisDetails the rise of organized veterans as a powerful interest group in modern American politicsTrade Review"This book should be on the reading list of any course that touches upon the 1920s and 1930s. Ortiz examines the pivotal role the bonus question played in stoking the anti-New Deal movement lead by Charles Coughlin and Huey Long and how settling this issue proved essential for FDRs decisive electoral victory in 1936." -- G. Kurt Piehler * Remembering War the American Way *"“Ortiz (Bowling Green State Univ.) has written an interesting account of a neglected component of politics during the New Deal era-- the impact of organized WWI veterans... This book will be required reading for anyone interested in the history of veteran politics and New Deal politics." * CHOICE *"Ortiz's book is an excellent contribution to a historical episode in need of political contextualization." -- Jeremy M. Teigen * Political and Military Sociology *"So much has been written about America in the 1930s that it is hard to say anything new. But, mounting a vigorous argument, Ortiz demonstrates convincingly that scholars have neglected a very important development in this period. Thanks to him, historians will be compelled to rewrite their accounts of the age of Roosevelt." -- William E. Leuchtenburg,author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940"Stimulating, clearly written, and meticulously documented." * The Journal of Military History *"Moving beyond other well documented examples of activism by former servicemen . . . Ortiz traces the fortunes of the two major U.S. veterans organizations, the first the patrician American Legion . . . the second the older, smaller and scrappier Veterans of Foreign Wars." * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Veterans' policy and Veteran Organizations, 1917-1929 2 Rethinking the Bonus March 3 The "New Deal" for Veterans 4 The Bonus Re-emerges 5 "The pro-Bonus party" 6 Veteran politics and the New Deal's political Triumph of 1936 Conclusion: GI Bill Legacies Postscript: A GI Bill for the Twenty-first Century? Notes Index About the Author
£22.79
John Wiley & Sons Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
Book SynopsisAdding a new dimension to the historiography of World War I, Maksudyan explores the variegated experiences and involvement of Ottoman children and youth in the war. Rather than simply passive victims, children became essential participants as soldiers, wage earners, farmers, and artisans.
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University of Minnesota Press The Dream of Civilized Warfare World War I
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the link between "civilized warfare" and the American self-image. This book presents the story of the creation of the first American air force and how the American imagination was shaped by the depiction of the flying ace - the gentleman warrior who offered not only a symbol of warfare, but also a distraction to the American public.Trade Review"In this extraordinary study, Robertson traces the American air service from its inception during World War I through the second Gulf conflict and reveals how through the romanticized myth of the flying ace the vision of "clean" or civilized combat was sold to receptive politicians and a gullible public. A highly controversial yet stimulating book that demands to be read." - Library Journal "The Dream of Civilized Warfare fills a crying need for an approach to the history of military aviation that acknowledges the forces of social and cultural history." - Military History"
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The University of Alabama Press Portraits of Remembrance Painting Memory and the
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale.Trade ReviewPortraits of Remembrance is a welcome addition to scholarship on commemoration and memory of the First World War." - Pearl James, author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War ITable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Painting, Memory, and the First World War Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout Chapter 1. En Souvenir: Albert Herter's Le DÉpart des Poilus, at Paris-Est Mark Levitch Chapter 2. Romaine Brooks's La France CroisÉe: Allegory, Androgyny, and Appropriation Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark 000 Chapter 3. A “rush frÉnÉtique”: Representation, Memory, and Georges Scott's La Brigade Marine AmÉricaine au Bois de Belleau Steven Trout Chapter 4. An Ambivalent Patriot: Namik Ismail, the First World War, and the Politics of Remembrance in Turkey Gizem Tongo Chapter 5. Albin Egger-Lienz's Die Namenlosen 1914: Vienna Painters and the Great War Philip D. Beidler Chapter 6. Russia, Memory, and the Great War: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's In the Line of Fire Andrew M. Nedd Chapter 7. The Canadians Opposite Lens: Augustus John's Unfinished First World War Canadian Masterpiece Laura Brandon Chapter 8. Sacrifice, Grief, and National Memory in George Edmund Butler's Butte de Polygon Caroline Lord Chapter 9. Gatekeeper of Memory: The Australian War Memorial and Charles Bryant's HMAS Australia on the Way to Her Doom Margaret Hutchison Chapter 10. Fortunino Matania's Goodbye, Old Man Marguerite Helmers Chapter 11. James Clark's The Great Sacrifice Peter Harrington Chapter 12. Maksimilijan Vanka's Our Mothers and the Croatian Memory of the First World War Heidi A. Cook Chapter 13. Der Krieg: Otto Dix's War Triptych, Memory, and the Perception of the First World War Martin Bayer Chapter 14. From Propaganda to Remembrance: Alfred Bastien's The Panorama of the Yser Battle Sandrine Smets Afterword Jay Winter Bibliography Contributors Index
£47.60
The University of Alabama Press Points of Honor
Book SynopsisA masterwork of World War I short stories portraying the experiences of Marines in battle. Points of Honor is based on author Thomas Alexander Boyd's personal experiences as an enlisted Marine. First published in 1925 and long out of print, this edition rescues from obscurity a vivid, kaleidoscopic vision of American soldiers, serving in a global conflict a century ago.Trade ReviewThomas Boyd is famous for the novel Through the Wheat, now enshrined as a World War I classic. In Points of Honor, through a set of interlocking narratives, he pulls off something of a short story version of William March’s Company K. A clear and interesting introduction by Steven Trout, pegged for the literate general reader, makes a strong case for the stories as something of an advance over Through the Wheat. Here the characters and situations are diverse, and the modes of narration and development are strikingly varied."" - Philip D. Beidler, author of Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination and The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War
£15.26
Ohio University Press Degrees of Allegiance
Book SynopsisDegrees of Allegiance updates traditional thinking about the German-American experience during the Great War, taking into account not just the war years but also the history of German settlement and the war’s impact on German-American culture.Trade Review“A very well-researched piece.… The strengths of the book are that it examines the rural and the urban experiences of German-Americans and that it suggests the need for some serious revisions of the scholarly emphasis on the severity of the reaction to German-American citizens during the period.”“Degrees of Allegiance is a detailed, sophisticated, and convincing account of how wartime expectations pressured Missouri Germans to relinquish the distinctive parts of their culture and the extent to which they actually did so.” * Missouri Historical Review *“The author makes a convincing case … and departs from the ‘victimization’ mode so characteristic of so much ethnic history today, and treats the German-American experience with considerable nuance.… The prime audience will of course be people interested in German-American history and Missouri politics of this era, but this is not an insider’s account and is written to be accessible also to general readers.” * Texas A & M University *
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University of Pittsburgh Press Overtaken by the Night
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University of Missouri Press Collapse at MeuseArgonne
Book SynopsisComposed of thousands of men from the two states, the Missouri-Kansas Division entered the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne with no battle experience and only a small amount of training, a few weeks of garrisoning in a quiet sector in Alsace. The division fell apart in five days, and the question Robert Ferrell attempts to answer is why.Trade ReviewAn excellent study of the interrelationship of leadership, training, morale, and unit cohesion. It offers the military professional a cautionary tale on how a unit composed of good soldiers can turn into a mob when they perceive their leaders are out of touch, indifferent, or too career-focused."" - Military Review""This excellent book is what one expects from its author, unsurpassed for his industry, competence, and honesty. It is most unusual that a scholar of his eminence would devote himself to such a valuable “small” history. His father, a veteran of the AEF, would have been proud."" - Journal of Military HistoryTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements One: Preparation Two: Thursday, September 26 Three: Friday-Saturday, September 27-28 Four: Sunday, September 29 Five: Aftermath Six: Conclusion A Contemporary Analysis Notes Sources Index
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico American Indians in World War I At War and at
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University of New Mexico Press The Archaeologist Was a Spy Sylvanus G. Morley
Book SynopsisTrade Review[The Archaeologist was a Spy], which is quite difficult to put down once opened, chronicles and assesses not only [Sylvanus] Morley's contributions to archaeology and intelligence, but also the organization, methods, and ventures of ONI clandestine operations in World War I. It makes a significant contribution to the study of American intelligence operations. - Military Heritage ""[Charles Harris and Ray Sadler] have written the most significant book available on U.S. intelligence during World War I in Latin America. For historians of intelligence agencies, this is a must read volume."" - William H. Beezley, professor of history, University of Arizona, and director of the Oaxaca (Mexico) Graduate Field School in Modern Mexican History ""In this remarkable story of a remarkable man and his colorful associates, Harris and Sadler bring to vivid life an unknown story of early American intelligence. They illuminate the start of today's vast spy apparatus."" - David Kahn, author of Hitler's Spies and The Codebreakers
£30.38
Johns Hopkins University Press War Isnt the Only Hell
Book SynopsisA vigorous reappraisal of American literature inspired by the First World War. American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army's unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign menexcept, notoriously, African Americansto positions and ranks based on merit. And it misses the fact that the culture granted masculinity only to combatants, while the noncombatant majority of doughboys experienced a different alienation: that of shame. Drawing on military archives, current research by social-military historians, and his own readings of thirteen major writers, Keith Gandal seeks to put American literature written after the Great War in its proper contextas a response to the shocks of war and meritocracy. The supposedly antiwar texts of noncombatant Lost Generation authors Dos Passos, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cummings, and Faulkner addressedoften in coded waysthe nTrade ReviewGandal's study is enlightening and will be a valuable resource for studying the Great War.—Choice[Gandal] shows how unsatisfactory wartime experiences informed the fiction of a range of writers, including William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, both of whom lied about their military roles in later years.—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign AffairsThe book is correct to claim that future scholars of Great War American literature will have to take these different military classifications into account. Combatants and noncombatants did experience service differently, just as soldiers who fought in the trenches experienced battle differently from those who did not. And just as importantly, Gandal's book should also be praised for bringing back into the light of day several excellent primary texts that have sadly sunk into obscurity.—Aaron Shaheen, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Studies in the NovelGandal's latest effort provide[s] needed extended analysis into a complicated war . . . Although Gandal offers insights into women writers of the period, as well as African American writers such as Victor Daly, it is the combatant/noncombatant paradox that drives the book, resulting in a much more complex reading and history of American Great War literature than in traditional analyses.—Ross K. Tangedal, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, The F Scott Fitzgerald ReviewGandal suggests that the conventional binary classification of World War I literature as either pro- or antiwar has in fact distracted us from signal differences between combatant and noncombatant experiences of war. . . . Gandal persuasively reads A Farewell to Arms, together with other major modernist works, as validating the particular resentments and disappointments of a vast audience of veterans who served in noncombatant roles rather than as speaking to the comparatively few American soldiers who actually served in combat during this conflict. The caste system elevating combat roles, on the one hand, over combat support and combat service support functions, on the other, persists today in the US military. . . —Elizabeth D. Samet, United States Military Academy, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. Noncombatant Mobilization Wounds2. The Horrors of War Mobilization3. Saved by French Arrest and Imprisonment4. Hemingway's Thrice-Told TalePart II5. The Mobilization of Young Women6. "A Miracle So Wide"Part III7. A War Hero in an Antiwar Tale?8. The Intimate Seductions of Meritocracy9. Not Only What You Would Expect10. Too Glorifying to TellConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Germanys Drive to the West Drang Nach Westen
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1950. Hans Gatzke analyzes Germany's ambitions to expand westward during World War I. Germany's wartime plans for expansion to the west had important repercussions at home and abroad. Gatzke proceeds chronologically, starting with the German political parties' outlining of their war aims. Gatzke claims that a combination of interests, including those of industrialists, pan-Germans, the parties of the Right, and the Supreme Command was responsible for the stubborn propagation of Germany's large war aims, which condemned the German people to remain at war until the bitter end. Each of these forces had its own particular reasons for wanting to hold out for far-reaching territorial gains, yet one aim that most of them had in common was ensuring, through a successful peace settlement, the continuation of the existing order, to their own advantage and to the political and economic detriment of the majority of the German people.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Evolution of Western War Aims (August 1914–May 1915)Chapter 2. A Period of Conflict – Chancellor vs. Annexationists (June 1915–August 1916)Chapter 3. A House Divided – Chancellor vs. Supreme Command (September 1916–July 1917) Chapter 4. The Strange Case of Georg Michaels (July 1917–October 1917)Chapter 5. The Victor of the Annexationists–The Defeat of Germany (November 1917–September 1918)ConclusionBibliographical NoteIndex
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