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Zusatztext This is an excellent book buy a leading historian of the First World War. It is full of thought-provoking ideas and contains a very useful but critical synthesis of existing scholarship. I highly recommend it Informationen zum Autor Adrian Gregory is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He studied history at Cambridge University and has been involved in the study of the First World War for over twenty years. He has been teaching a course on the comparative history of the First World War at Oxford since 1999. Klappentext This new perspective on the First World War offers a concise narrative of the war in its global context, from the first military actions in July 1914 to the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919, and explores how our understanding of the war has changed over time. Zusammenfassung This new perspective on the First World War offers a concise narrative of the war in its global context, from the first military actions in July 1914 to the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919, and explores how our understanding of the war has changed over time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Escalation 1914-1915 2: Attrition 1915-1916 3: Exhaustion 1916-1917 4: Revolutionary war 1917-1918 5: Armistice and Peace 1918-1919 Historiography
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This new perspective on the First World War offers a concise narrative of the war in its global context, from the first military actions in July 1914 to the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919, and explores how our understanding of the war has changed over time.
