The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which
we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective
memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918,
millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in
the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth
century. The Oxford History of the First World War brings
together in one volume many of the most distinguished historians of the
conflict, in an account that matches the scale of the events. From its
causes to its consequences, from the Western Front
to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of
the generals, they chart the course of the war and assess its profound
political and human consequences. Chapters on economic mobilization, the
impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism
establish the wider context of the fighting at sea and in the air, and
which ranged on land from the trenches of Flanders to the mountains of
the Balkans and the deserts of the Middle East. First published
for the 90th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, this highly illustrated
revised edition contains significant new material to mark the 100th
anniversary of the war's outbreak.Readership: All those interested in
the First World War and the history of the twentieth century