Since the Armistice, a vast literature has been produced on the First World War and its repercussions. In this 2005 book, two leading historians from the United States and France have produced a fully comparative analysis of the ways in which this history has been written and interpreted. The book identifies three generations of historians, literary scholars, film directors and writers who have commented upon the war. Through a thematic structure, it assesses not only diplomatic and military studies but also the social and cultural interpretations of the Great War as seen primarily through the eyes of French, German and British writers. It provides a fascinating case study of the practice of history in the twentieth century and of the enduring importance of the national lens in shaping historical narrative. This interesting study will prove invaluable reading to scholars and students in history, war studies, European history and international relations.

The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present

Latin had no word for "strategy", but the East Romans, whom we call the Byzantines, did. This book tracks the evolution of the concept of warfare being subjected to higher political aims from Antiquity to the Present, using Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, English and German sources. It tracks the rise, fall, and resurrection of the belief in the Roman and later the medieval and early modern world that warfare was only legitimate if it pursued the higher goal of a just peace, which in the 19th century gave way to a blinkered concentration on military victory as only war aim. It explains why one school of thought, from Antiquity to the present, emphasised eternal principles of warfare, while others emphasised, in Clausewitz's term, the "changing character of war". It tracks ideas from land warfare to naval warfare to air power and nuclear thinking, but it also stresses great leaps and discontinuities in thinking about strategy. It covers asymmetric wars both from the point of view of the weaker power seeking to overthrow a stronger power, and from the stronger power dealing with insurgents and other numerically inferior forces. It concludes with a commentary of the long-known problems of bureaucratic politics, non-centralised command and inter-service rivalry, which since the 16th century or earlier has created obstacles to coherent strategy making.

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The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present

: Military historian Williamson Murray has prepared this selected bibliography as a guide to the vast body of military histories and as a reading program that could extend our understanding and comprehension of that terrible, yet intriguing, human phenomenon that is war. JAWP) is making it available to those individuals in DoD and the Services who feel that history can shed light on the problems they confront today. The bibliography is derived from the substantial literature on European and American military history The works were chosen for a variety of reasons: quality of scholarship, point of view subject matter, and readability. They are categorized by period and subject matter, and given a rating by the author. The first chapter contains an annotated list of twenty-five books that Dr. Murray considers essential to the library of a warfighter, scholar, or student of military history.

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Military History: A Selected Bibliography

Preface and acknowledgements 1. The necessary war, 1914-18 2. Goodbye to all that, 1919-33 3. Donkeys and Flanders mud: the war rediscovered in the 1960s 4. Thinking the unthinkable: the first world war as history Sir Lees Knowles (1857-1928) The Lees Knowles lectures Notes Select bibliography Index.

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The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History

MILITARY SERVICE, COMBAT, AND AMERICAN IDENTITY IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA by Sebastian Hubert Lukasik Department of History Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Alex Roland, Supervisor ___________________________ Claudia Koonz ___________________________ Peter Wood ___________________________ Richard H. Kohn An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the Graduate School of Duke University 2008

Military service, combat, and American identity in the Progressive Era

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than "Passchendaele". By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable not inescapable; nor perhaps was it necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide a full account of the campaign. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of "Third Ypres". It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And they explore the experience of the men on the ground in the light - whether they knew it or not - of what was never going to be accomplished.

Passchendaele: The Untold Story

Part 1 Prelude: apprenticeship into battle, August-December 1914. Part 2 The campaigns of 1915: Neuve Chapelle - the plan the technical framework day one day two day three summing up Aubers Ridge - the plan the battle Givenchy Loos - the plan day one day two and after. Part 3 The Somme: the outline plan the implements round one the run-up to 14 July success by night 15 July-14 September - the forgotten battles 15-30 September - new weapons and old October-November 1916 - mud and muddle. Part 4 Limbo and return: on the sidelines, January 1917-March 1918 return to command - March-June 1918. Part 5 Victory: a formula for success, June-July 1918 Amiens - the plan the implements August 1918 the following days pursuit approach to the Hindenburg line the plan of attack the battle the end of the affair.

Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914-18

Command on the Western Front.

wars. Two works by Paul Fussell invoke the aid of literature to explore conflict in the twentieth century. They have been widely read. They deserve to be explored and evaluated. The Great War and Modern Memory appeared in 1975. It deals with the First World War (although the Second World War keeps elbowing in), and draws heavily on creative writers like Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden. It was followed in 1989 by Wartime. This is a book about the Second World War, and contains many references to Cyril Connolly and Osbert Sitwell.~

Paul Fussell at War

Industrial and ironclad power reached its culmination in the war that engulfed Europe. As events would prove, however, the products of the industrial system of the 20th century, including the capacity of the system to transfer vast reserves of manpower from civilian to military employment at short notice, much more greatly favoured strategies of defence than offence. The outcome was a war of attrition and immobile fronts, eventually to be unlocked only when a second wave of industrial innovation yielded means - the tank, the aeroplane - to break the stalemate. This is a complete history of World War I. It is illustrated throughout and incorporates computer-generated cartography to bring the battlefields to life.

Robin Prior

Papers

Passchendaele: The Untold Story

Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914-18

Command on the Western Front.

Paul Fussell at War

The First World War