The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany,
Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century.
The Oxford History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of the most distinguished historians of the conflict, in an account
that matches the scale of the events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals, they chart the course of the war and assess its profound political and human consequences. Chapters on economic
mobilization, the impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider context of the fighting at sea and in the air, and which ranged on land from the trenches of Flanders to the mountains of the Balkans and the deserts of the Middle East.
First
published for the 90th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, this highly illustrated revised edition contains significant new material to mark the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak.
Hew Strachan: Introduction
1. Samuel R. Williamson, Jr: The Origins of the War
2. Holger Afflerbach: The Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914-1917
3. D. E. Showalter: Manoeuvre Warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914-1915
4. David French: The Strategy of the Entente Powers,
1914-1917
5. R. J. Crampton: The Balkans, 1914-1918
6. Ulrich Trumpener: Turkey's War
7. David Killingray: The War in Africa
8. Paul G. Halpern: The War at Sea
9. B. J. C. McKercher: Economic Warfare
10. Hew Strachan: Economic Mobilization: Money, Munitions, Machines
11.
Susan Grayzel: The Role of Women in War
12. J. A. Turner: The Challenge to Liberalism: The Politics of the Home Fronts
13. Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson: Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916-1917
14. Alexander Watson: Mutinies and Military Morale
15. David Stevenson: War Aims and
Peace Negotiations
16. J. M. Winter: Propaganda and the Mobilization of Consent
17. John Horne: Socialism, Peace, and Revolution, 1917-1918
18. David Trask: The Entry of the USA into the War and its Effects
19. Holger H. Herwig: The German Victories, 1917-1918
20. John H. Morrow,
Jr: The War in the Air
21. Tim Travers: The Allied Victories, 1918
22. Zara Steiner: The Peace Settlement
23. Robert Gerwarth: No End to War
24. Modris Eksteins: Memory and the Great War
Further Reading
Index
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Sir Hew Strachan was born in Edinburgh in 1949, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow between 1975 and 1992. He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow between 1992 and 2001, and founded its Scottish Centre for War Studies. From 2002
to 2015 he was Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, and between 2003 and 2012 he directed the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. Since 2015 he has been Professor of International Relations at St Andrews University.
