The World War I Reader / / ed. by Michael S. Neiberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ali, Hussein Ibn,; Angell, Norman,; Ashworth, Tony,; Bernhardi, Friedrich von,; Blair, Dale,; Blücher, Evelyn,; Brittain, Vera,; Brusilov, Alexei,; Davis, Belinda J,; Deist, Wilhelm,; Essen, Leon van der,; Foch, Ferdinand,; Fromkin, David,; Gibbs, Philip,; Hašek, Jaroslav,; Keene, Jennifer D.,; Manning, Frederic,; McMahon, Henry,; Nicolson, Harold,; Pershing, John,; Porch, Douglas,; Sheffield, G. D.,; Showalter, Dennis,; Smith, Leonard V.,; Trask, David,; Verhey, Jeffrey,; Watt, Richard,; Wilson, Woodrow,
• HerausgeberIn: Neiberg, Michael S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. Its enormous impact on the world in terms of international diplomacy and politics, and the ways in which future military engagements would evolve, be fought, and ultim...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Maps
• Timeline of Major Events
• Brief Biographies of Important Figures Mentioned in the Text
• Introduction
• One: Causes
• Primary
• 1.1 The Great Illusion, 1910
• 1.2 Germany and the Next War
• 1.3 The “Willy-Nicky” Telegrams
• Secondary
• 1.4 The Circus Rider of Europe
• 1.5 The Army and the Nationalist Revival
• Two: Soldiers
• Primary
• 2.1 The Good Soldier Schweik
• 2.2 Her Privates We
• 2.3 A Soldier’s Notebook
• Secondary
• 2.4 Officer-Man Relations: The Other Ranks’ Perspective
• 2.5 “War Enthusiasm”: Volunteers, Departing Soldiers, and Victory Celebrations
• 2.6 Foch’s General Counteroffensive, Part I: 26 September to 23 October 1918
• Three: Armageddon
• Primary
• 3.1 The Destruction of Louvain
• 3.2 The Historic First of July
• Secondary
• 3.3 Between Mutiny and Obedience
• 3.4 The Live and Let Live System
• Four: Home Fronts
• Primary
• 4.1 Letters from a Lost Generation
• 4.2 An English Wife in Berlin
• Secondary
• 4.3 Home Fires Burning
• 4.4 The Politics of Race
• Five: The End of the War
• Primary
• 5.1 The Fourteen Points
• 5.2 Views on a Prospective Armistice
• Secondary
• 5.3 The Military Collapse of the German Empire
• 5.4 Diggers and Doughboys Australian and American Troop Interaction on the Western Front, 1918
• Six: Peace
• Primary
• 6.1 Peacemaking, 1919
• 6.2 British Diplomacy: The Hussein-McMahon Letters
• Secondary
• 6.3 A Peace to End All Peace
• 6.4 The Kings Depart
• Further Reading
• Index
• About the Editor