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The Great Class War 1914-1918
Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders. For European statesmen, a large-scale war could give their countries new colonial territories, important to growing capitalist economies. For the wealthy and ruling classes, war served as an antidote to social revolution, encouraging workers to exchange socialism's focus on international solidarity for nationalism's intense militarism. And for the working classes themselves, war provided an outlet for years of systemic militarization -- quite ...
A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved. Scrupulously fair, praising and blaming friend and enemy as circumstances demand, this has become established as the classic account of the first world-wide war.
The Great War
A landmark history of the war that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism and gives due weight to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict.
World War I
More than seventy years after the Armistice of 11 November 1918, the First World War continues to cast an immense shadow over the twentieth century, its course and effects having played a large part in shaping the world we live in today. Although it was a global conflict, with actions fought as far afield as the Falkland Islands and Tsingtao in China, it is the Western Front--the decisive theatre of the war--that still dominates our collective memory. For most people, the enduring images of the 1914-1918 war are those of frightful carnage on the battlefields of northern France and Belgium and of legions of doomed young men being sacrificed in futile frontal assaults against machine guns for ...
The First World War
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