Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War

Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9781108924603
ISBN-13 : 1108924603
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War by : Stefano Marcuzzi

This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues – war aims, war strategy and peace-making – and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.

Italy in the Era of the Great War

Italy in the Era of the Great War
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9789004363724
ISBN-13 : 9004363726
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Italy in the Era of the Great War by :

In Italy in the Era of the Great War, Vanda Wilcox brings together nineteen Italian and international scholars to analyse the political, military, social and cultural history of Italy in the country’s decade of conflict from 1911 to 1922. Starting with the invasion of Libya in 1911 and concluding with the rise of post-war social and political unrest, the volume traces domestic and foreign policy, the economics of the war effort, the history of military innovation, and social changes including the war’s impact on religion and women, along with major cultural and artistic developments of the period. Each chapter provides a concise and effective overview of the field as it currently stands as well as introducing readers to the latest research. Contributors are Giulia Albanese, Claudia Baldoli, Allison Scardino Belzer, Francesco Caccamo, Filippo Cappellano, Selena Daly, Fabio Degli Esposti, Spencer Di Scala, Douglas J. Forsyth, Irene Guerrini, Oliver Janz, Irene Lottini, Stefano Marcuzzi, Valerie McGuire, Marco Pluviano, Paul O’Brien, Carlo Stiaccini, Andrea Ungari, and Bruce Vandervort. See inside the book.

The White War

The White War
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9780786744381
ISBN-13 : 0786744383
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The White War by : Mark Thompson

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn into the heart of the chaos. A work of epic scale, The White War does full justice to the brutal and heart-wrenching war that inspired Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

The First World War

The First World War
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780199205592
ISBN-13 : 0199205590
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The First World War by : Michael Howard

This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.

The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050

The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 052180079X
ISBN-13 : 9780521800792
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 by : MacGregor Knox

This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.

Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War

Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9781108831291
ISBN-13 : 110883129X
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War by : Stefano Marcuzzi

Reassesses British and Italian grand strategies from 1914 to 1920: including the war, the peace conference and the Fiume crisis.

Planning Armageddon

Planning Armageddon
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : 9780674063068
ISBN-13 : 0674063066
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Planning Armageddon by : Nicholas A. Lambert

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, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage-political, social, economic, and diplomatic-to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert's interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in any analysis of strategic policy of understanding Clausewitz's "political conditions of war."

The Fourteen Points Speech

The Fourteen Points Speech
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 1548159417
ISBN-13 : 9781548159412
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fourteen Points Speech by : Woodrow Wilson

This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper.

The Economics of World War I

The Economics of World War I
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9781139448352
ISBN-13 : 1139448358
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Economics of World War I by : Stephen Broadberry

This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.

The Beauty and the Sorrow

The Beauty and the Sorrow
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 594
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ISBN-10 : 9780307739285
ISBN-13 : 0307739287
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Beauty and the Sorrow by : Peter Englund

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.