World War I was one of the greatest upheavals in history, involving upwards of 70 million combatants--9 million of whom lost their lives--and setting off shock waves that were felt worldwide long after the Armistice of 1918. In The Experience of World War I, J.M. Winter marshalls a comprehensive range of historical materials, hundreds of vivid illustrations, and numerous eye-witness accounts to provide an illuminating and gripping chronicle of this cataclysmic event and its aftermath. How did the assassination of one man, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, trigger such vast devastation? What was combat like for the common soldier? Why did the generals persist in large-scale offensives after catastrophic losses early in the war? What was the impact of the war on European politics, the world economy, and the arts? To answer these and myriad other questions, Winter examines the war year by year, describing the conflict as it was experienced by politicians, generals, soldiers and civilians. Illustrated with hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs, the book uncovers many intriguing aspects of the war: it reveals that soldiers in fact spent only two weeks per month in the front trenches, describes how the father of tycoon Rupert Murdoch broke the story of the disaster at Gallipoli, and outlines the unprecedented logistics problems the military faced (it took 20 boxcars of food per day to feed 17,000 men--and there were 5 million men in the British army alone). There is also a wealth of fascinating sidebar material covering a wide variety of secondary topics, from women's war poetry to the sinking of the LusitaniaT. The book is further enhanced by numerous first-hand accounts of life during the war, drawn from diaries, memoirs and other writings of both men and women, from all countries and social groups, and it also includes a full chronology, many full-color maps, and tables of essential data. Combining political, military, and social history, this evocative account captures the Great War in all its complexity, from the bloody battles of Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele, to the flood of post-war literary and artistic works, including All Quiet on the Western Front and Jean Renoir's film La Grande Illusion.

The Experience of World War I

History

Winter, J.M.

Military

Oxford University Press

This is an examination of the costs of the World War I, considering the direct political, material and human consequences. It shows how the Great War left an indelible imprint on the cultural life of the West, drawing on chronologies, biographies and maps. The gigantic scale of the military effort during these four excruciating years was phenomenal - 70 million men were mobilized into uniform and of those about nine million died. The effect of this upheaval on politicians, generals, soldiers and civilians is followed through four separate phases of the War: the war of illusions of 1914; the war of stalemate and stagnation of 1915; the war of the great slaughter of 1916-17; and the re-emergence of social conflict and revolution in 1917-18, which precipitated the Armistice on 11 November 1918.

Papermac

This book of essays is a collective treatment of the problem of the impact of war on economic development in Europe. This subject has been neglected despite the fact that the issues it raises are of direct concern to students of military history, the history of science and technology, the history of education, historical demography, as well as to students of political, social and economic history. The contributors to this volume have drawn on work done in all these fields. Taken together, this study provides the foundation for further comparative work on the effect of war and warfare on economic life. The contributors have approached the problem from two sides. The subject of a number of essays is the 'internal history' of armed conflict. These focus on war itself and discuss the mobilization of resources which precedes it and the ways that economic activity and policy are altered by it.

War and Economic Development: Essays in memory of David Joslin

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

This book of essays is a collective treatment of the problem of the impact of war on economic development in Europe. This subject has been neglected despite the fact that the issues it raises are of direct concern to students of military history, the history of science and technology, the history of education, historical demography, as well as to students of political, social and economic history. The contributors to this volume have drawn on work done in all these fields. Taken together, this study provides the foundation for further comparative work on the effect of war and warfare on economic life. The contributors have approached the problem from two sides. The subject of a number of essays is the 'internal history' of armed conflict. These focus on war itself and discuss the mobilization of resources which precedes it and the ways that economic activity and policy are altered by it.

The Great War and the British People is a classic study of the impact of war on the men who fought and on the communities they defended. It provides the authoritative account of the 'Lost Generation', in terms of mobilization, casualties, and memory, and contrasts that history with another history, one of massive improvements in the well-being of the home population. A war of unprecedented carnage was also a war which improved the heath of the British people. Between 1914 and 1918, warfare and welfare thus came together in entirely surprising ways.

The Great War and the British People

Europe

Harvard University Press

Europe 1789 to 1914 Volume 1: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire

Merriman, John M.

Thomson

Europe 1789 to 1914 : Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire: Volume 5: Talleyrand to Zollverein; Index

Socialism and the challenge of war;: Ideas and politics in Britain, 1912-18

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The problems presented by war in the 20th century have severely tested socialist ideas, and World War I in particular marks a crucial period in the history of the socialist wing of the British Labour movement. This text is an account of the development of political ideas and activities of the most rigorous and original of thinkers of that time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R.H. Tawney and G.D.H Cole. The first part of this study examines the state of the Labour movement and socialist ideas on the eve of conflict, and goes on to discuss the efforts of leading individuals to establish a coherent socialist philosophy. The second section focuses on the fundamental question of impact of the War on the dissemination of British socialist ideas. The adaptation of socialists to the Labour Party's socialist commitment is shown to be ultimately the result of a partnership forged between the wartime Labour leaders and the socialist intellectuals.

Socialism and the Challenge of War: Ideas and Politics in Britain 1912-18 (Modern Revivals in History)

Gregg Revivals

This second edition of the classic bestseller by J.M. Winter, originally published by Macmillan in 1985, includes a new and up-to-date introduction. This was the first major study to highlight the paradox that a conflict that killed or maimed over two million men, also created conditions which improved the health of the civilian population. Examining both the war and its aftermath, Dr Winter surveys not only trends in population and the impact of the conflict on an entire generation, but also, more profoundly, the meaning of the literature of the period.

Palgrave

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The Experience of World War I

The Experience of World War I

War and Economic Development: Essays in memory of David Joslin

War and Economic Development: Essays in memory of David Joslin

The Great War and the British People

Europe 1789 to 1914 Volume 1: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire

Europe 1789 to 1914 : Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire: Volume 5: Talleyrand to Zollverein; Index

Socialism and the challenge of war;: Ideas and politics in Britain, 1912-18

Socialism and the Challenge of War: Ideas and Politics in Britain 1912-18 (Modern Revivals in History)

The Great War and the British People