The First World War
By: Hew Strachan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1248
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Other titles: 1st World War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 1141-1190) and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. To arms.; title: List of Maps; title: Introduction; label: Ch 1
title: The Origins of the War; pagenum: Germany as a World Power; pagenum: Austria-Hungary and the Balkans; pagenum: The July Crisis; label: Ch 2
title: Willingly to War; pagenum: War Enthusiasm; pagenum: Socialism and the International; pagenum: The Imaginings of Intellectuals; pagenum: Popular Responses; label: Ch 3
title: The Western Front in 1914; pagenum: War Plans; pagenum: The Battle of the Frontiers; pagenum: Problems, and Some Solutions; pagenum: The Battle of the Marne; pagenum: From the Aisne to the Yser; label: Ch 4
title: The Eastern Front in 1914; pagenum: War Plans; pagenum: East Prussia; pagenum: Serbia; pagenum: Galicia; pagenum: Poland; label: Ch 5
title: The War In Northern Waters, 1914-1915; pagenum: Preparing for War; pagenum: The North Sea, 1914-1915; label: Ch 6
title: War In The Pacific, 1914-1917; pagenum: Oceanic Security and the Cruiser Threat; pagenum: Japan Enters the War; pagenum: The Cruise of the German East Asiatic Squadron; pagenum: Empire in the Pacific; label: Ch 7
title: The Dark Continent: Colonial Conflict In Sub-Saharan Africa; pagenum: War in Africa; pagenum: Togoland; pagenum: The Cameroons; pagenum: South-West Africa; pagenum: East Africa, 1914-1915; pagenum: East Africa, 1916-1918; label: Ch 8
title: Turkey's Entry; pagenum: The Escape of the Goeben and the Breslau; pagenum: Turkey's Decision to Join the Central Powers; pagenum: Turkey's Capacity for War; label: Ch 9
title: Germany's Global Strategy; pagenum: Holy War; pagenum: The Caucasus, 1914-1915; pagenum: Suez, Egypt, and Libya; pagenum: French North Africa; pagenum: Persia and Afghanistan; pagenum: India; label: Ch 10
title: Financing The War; pagenum: The Gold Standard; pagenum: Financial Mobilization; pagenum: The Loss of Budgetary Control; pagenum: Taxation; pagenum: Domestic Borrowing; pagenum: Foreign Borrowing; label: Ch 11
title: Industrial Mobilization; pagenum: Shell Shortage; pagenum: The Short-War Illusion; pagenum: Raw Materials, Munitions Production, and the Central Powers, 1914-1916; pagenum: The Munitions Crisis and the Entente, 1914-1916; label: Ch 12
title: Conclusion: The Ideas Of 1914; title: Bibliography; title: Index