With Our Backs to the Wall : : Victory and Defeat in 1918 /

With Our Backs to the Wall : : Victory and Defeat in 1918 / / David Stevenson.

With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper-an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of ad...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Stevenson, David,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (752 p.) :; 30 halftones, 12 maps, 17 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Military and Naval Terminology
  • Preface
  • Maps
  • Prologue: Deadlock, 1914–1917
  • 1. On the Defensive, March–July 1918
  • 2. On the Attack: July–November 1918
  • 3. The New Warfare: Intelligence, Technology, and Logistics
  • 4. The Human Factor: Manpower and Morale
  • 5. Securing the Seas: Submarines and Shipping
  • 6. The War Economies: Money, Guns, and Butter
  • 7. The Home Fronts: Gender, Class, and Nation
  • 8. Armistice and After
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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