"Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany - economic warfare on an unprecedented scale. This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications,…
The Art of Staying Neutral offers a fascinating insight into the problems and challenges associated with neutrality in an age of 'total war'. It explains how the Netherlands upheld and protected its nonbelligerency during the First World War despite constant interference from it…
"The Art of Staying Neutral offers an insight into the problems and challenges associated with neutrality in an age of 'total war'. It explains how the Netherlands upheld and protected its non-belligerency during the First World War (1914-1918) despite constant interference in i…
A comparative view of the role of newspapers in Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Great War, this volume goes beyond atrocity stories to look at how war itself, the objectives and the enemy were all defined by the national presses.
"The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Isolationism fell, and America joined the ranks of the Great Powers. Both the federal government and the military expanded rapidly during this time, in terms of size and power. The new …
"Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the importance of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. No Place to Run shows that this chemical plague was a serious threat even after gas masks were introduced." "Tim Cook uses diaries, letters, reminiscences, p…