"The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly…
Die Frage, wie man Kriege verhindern könnte, gehört zu den wichtigsten der Menschheit. In der Diskussion über 1914 wird auch immer wieder der Krieg gegen Jugoslawien zitiert. Es gibt dazu zwei vergessene Bücher, Karl Kautskys Wie der Weltkrieg entstand (1919) und Heinz Loquais S…
"The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918 mark one of the most controversial moments in American history. Even as President Woodrow Wilson justified US entry into World War I on the grounds that it would 'make the world safe for democracy, ' the act curtailed civil liberties…
International socialism and the World War
International socialism and the World War
A study of French foreign and security policy before, during, and after World War I, examining the interplay between two contending conceptions of security: one based on traditional practices of power politics and the other on internationalist doctrines that emerged in the late …
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions and David Stevenson re-examines the causes, course and impact of this 'war to end war' placing it in the context of its era and exposing its underlying dynamics. …
An unforgettable story of three brothers, of history and love, of marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war.
An unforgettable story of three brothers, of history and love, of marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war. "Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives fro…
Examines how the failure of the victors at the end of World War I to create a peace settlement based on reconciliation rather than a consolidation of their own powers led to the instability of the Balkans and the Middle East, which continues to the present day.
Hockey Magnate Conn Smythe, Trudeau cabinet minister Gilles Lamontagne, and the composer and former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan, share something other than their fame: they all have the dubious distinction of having been captured by the enem…
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just …
"The fall of the Ottoman and Russian empires were watershed events in modern history. The unraveling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and rev…
Der Erste Weltkrieg wirkte auf vielen unterschiedlichen Ebenen auf die Institution Universität ein. Mit Beginn des Wintersemesters 1914/15 hatten sich in Göttingen wie an allen europäischen Hochschulen die Hörsäle geleert. Die wenigen Studierenden, die nicht als Kriegsfreiwillig…