The World War I reader [primary and secondary sources] / edited by Michael S. Neiberg.

Other author Neiberg, Michael S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 375 p. : maps ; 26 cm.
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Variant title World War One reader
Variant title World War 1 reader
Contents The great illusion, 1910 / Sir Norman Angell -- Germany and the next war / General Friedrich von Bernhardi -- The "Willy-Nicky" telegrams / Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia -- The circus rider of Europe / Dennis Showalter -- The army and the nationalist revival / Douglas Porch -- The good soldier Schweik / Jaroslav Hašek -- Her privates we / Frederic Manning -- A soldier's notebook / Alexei Brusilov -- Officer-man relations: the other ranks' perspective / G. D. Sheffield -- "War enthusiasm": volunteers, departing soldiers, and victory celebrations / Jeffrey Verhey -- Foch's general counteroffensive, part I: 26 September to 23 October, 1918 / David Trask --
Contents The destruction of Louvain / Leon van der Essen -- The historic first of July / Philip Gibbs -- Between mutiny and obedience / Leonard V. Smith -- The live and let live system / Tony Ashworth -- Letters from a lost generation / Vera Brittain -- An English wife in Berlin / Evelyn Blücher -- Home fires burning / Belinda J. Davis -- The politics of race / Jennifer D. Keene -- The fourteen points / President Woodrow Wilson -- Views on a prospective armistice / Ferdinand Foch and John Pershing -- The military collapse of the German Empire / Wilhelm Deist -- Diggers and doughboys: Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918 / Dale Blair -- Peacemaking, 1919 / Harold Nicolson -- British diplomacy: the Hussein-McMahon letters / Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Cairo, to Hussein Ibn Ali, the Sherif of Mecca -- A peace to end all peace / David Fromkin -- The kings depart / Richard Watt.
General noteSubtitle from cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index.
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LCCN 2006020767
ISBN0814758320 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814758328 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814758339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814758335 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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