A wide-ranging and incisive collection of articles covering all aspects of World War I, written by some of the leading academics in the field.
World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent.
It was a conflict unparalleled in its scale, which in turn fuelled devastatingly rapid developments in military technology, technique and innovation as the belligerent powers sought to break the deadlock on the Western Front and elsewhere.
In the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict, 14 renowned historians from around the world examine some of the key aspects of the war, providing a wide-ranging analysis of the whole conflict beyond but including the stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front.
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Dr. Matthias Strohn was educated at the Universities of Muenster (Germany) and Oxford. He has lectured at Oxford University and the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham. Since 2006 he has been a lecturer in the Department of War Studi
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Contributors
Foreword by Professor Gary Sheffield
Chapter 1 Commanding Through Armageddon
Allied Senior Leadership in World War I
Professor Michael S. Neiberg
Chapter 2 German Operational Thinking in World War I
Major Dr Thorsten Loch
Chapter 3 The Expansion of the British Army During World War I
Major Bruce Gudmundsson
Chapter 4 World War I Aviation
From Reconnaissance to the Modern Air Campaign
Dr James S. Corum
Chapter 5 The Global War at Sea, 1914-18
Professor Dr Michael Epkenhans
Chapter 6 The French Army Between Tradition and Modernity
Weaponry, Tactics, and Soldiers 1914-18
Professor Dr François Cochet
Chapter 7 German Tactical Doctrine and the Defensive Battle on the Western Front
Dr Matthias Strohn
Chapter 8 The Rollercoaster of Austria-Hungary's World War I Experience
Professor Dr Lothar Höbelt
Chapter 9 The Imperial Russian Army and the Eastern Front in World War I, 1914-17
Dr Stephen Walsh
Chapter 10 ANZACs and the Rocky Road to Tactical Effectiveness, 1916-17
Dr Andrew Macdonald
Chapter 11 A Sideshow of a Sideshow?
The Arab Revolt (1916-18) and the Development of Modern Desert Warfare
Dr David Murphy
Chapter 12 The Reluctant Pupil
The American Army on the Western Front, 1917-18
Professor Andrew Wiest
Chapter 13 The German Occupation of the Ukraine, 1918
Blitzkrieg and Insurgencies
Dr Peter Lieb
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index