With our backs to the wall : victory and defeat in 1918

With our backs to the wall : victory and defeat in 1918 / David Stevenson.

With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of a...

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Main Author: Stevenson, D. (David), 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Western Front.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Military campaigns
Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
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Table of Contents:
  • Deadlock, 1914-1917
  • On the defensive, March-July 1918
  • On the attack, July-November 1918
  • The new warfare: intelligence, technology, and logistics
  • The human factor: manpower and morale
  • Securing the seas: submarines and shipping
  • The war economies: money, guns, and butter
  • The home fronts: gender, class, and nation
  • Armistice and after.

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