Pandora's box : a history of the First World War / Jörn Leonhard ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
2018
940.3 L584p 2018
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Title
Pandora's box : a history of the First World War / Jörn Leonhard ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Author
Uniform Title
Büchse der Pandora. English
ISBN
9780674545113 (hardcover)
0674545117 (hardcover)
0674545117 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the German.
Description
1087 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
940.3 L584p 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1002820534
(OCoLC)1002820534
(OCoLC)1002820534
Summary
In this monumental history of World War I, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora's Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy, the everyday tactics of dynamic movement and slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers. But the war was much more than a military conflict, or an exclusively European one. Leonhard renders the perspectives of leaders, intellectuals, artists, and ordinary men and women on diverse home fronts as they grappled with the urgency of the moment and the rise of unprecedented political and social pressures. And he shows how the entire world came out of the war utterly changed. Postwar treaties and economic turbulence transformed geopolitics. Old empires disappeared or confronted harsh new constraints, while emerging countries struggled to find their place in an age of instability. At the same time, sparked and fueled by the shock and suffering of war, radical ideologies in Europe and around the globe swept away orders that had seemed permanent, to establish new relationships among elites, masses, and the state. Heralded on its publication in Germany as a masterpiece of historical narrative and analysis, Pandora's Box makes clear just what dangers were released when the guns first fired in the summer of 1914-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"This book was first published as Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs © Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München 2014."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Legacies : the First World War and Europe's long nineteenth century
Antecedents : crises and containment before 1914
Drift and escalation : summer and fall 1914
Stasis and movement : 1915
Wearing down and holding out : 1916
Expansion and erosion : 1917
Onrush and collapse : 1918
Outcomes : wars in peace and rival models of order, 1919-1923
Memories : fragmented experiences and polarized expectations
Burdens : the First World War and the century of global conflicts
Appendixes. British and Empire losses on the Western Front ; French losses on the Western Front ; German losses on the Western Front ; German losses on the Eastern Front.
Antecedents : crises and containment before 1914
Drift and escalation : summer and fall 1914
Stasis and movement : 1915
Wearing down and holding out : 1916
Expansion and erosion : 1917
Onrush and collapse : 1918
Outcomes : wars in peace and rival models of order, 1919-1923
Memories : fragmented experiences and polarized expectations
Burdens : the First World War and the century of global conflicts
Appendixes. British and Empire losses on the Western Front ; French losses on the Western Front ; German losses on the Western Front ; German losses on the Eastern Front.
Added Author
Translation of
Translation of: Leonhard, Jörn. Büchse der Pandora. München : Beck, [2014]
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