The Shadows of Total War
Subtitle: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 19191939 (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Contributors: Roger Chickering (Editor); Stig Forster (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; German Historical Institute
Published: January 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521812368
Subjects: Theory of warfare & military science; World history: First World War; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History - General History; Diplomatic history; World War, 1939-1945; Military art and science; History: World; Germany; Military - World War I; Modern - 20th Century; History / Modern / 20th Century; Congresses; World War, 1914-1918; Europe - Germany; 20th century; History; Influence
First sentence: Two factors must be kept in mind at all times when the 1920s and 1930s are under review: the dominating memory of the "Great War"-as what we call World War I had come to be called-and the reality of continued conflict in some portions of the world.
Description: "The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the interwar period. They explore the lingering consequences of World War I, the intellectual efforts to analyze this conflict's military significance, the attempts to plan for another general war, and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939."--BOOK JACKET.