1917 : beyond the Western Front / / edited by Ian F.W. Beckett.

The growing military, political and socio-economic costs for all belligerents as the Great War entered its fourth year were increasingly evident, liberal democracies and authoritarian states alike having to remobilise public opinion for yet greater sacrifices. While the Western Front was facing thes...

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Superior document:History of warfare, v. 54
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:History of warfare ; v. 54.
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Planning for the endgame : the Central Powers, September 1916-April 1917 / Lawrence Sondhaus
  • Generalship and mass surrender during the Italian defeat at Caporetto / Vanda Wilcox
  • 'Weary waiting is hard indeed' : the Grand Fleet after Jutland / Nick Hewitt
  • Counting unrest : physical manifestations of unrest and their relationship to Admiralty perception / Laura Rowe
  • Climax in the Baltic : the German maritime offensive in the Gulf of Riga in October 1917 / Eric Grove
  • Command, strategy and the battle for Palestine, 1917 / Matthew Hughes
  • The Army in India in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1918 : tactics, technology and logistics reconsidered / Kaushik Roy
  • War comes to the fields : sacrifice, localism and ploughing up the English countryside in 1917 / Keith Grieves.