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  title info:
    title: War of attrition
    sub title: fighting the First World War
  name:
    name part: Philpott, William James.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, one hundred years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war. Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians and diplomats, War of Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict was fought as it was fought, and how the attitudes and actions of political and military leaders and the willing responses of their peoples, stamped the twentieth century with unprecedented carnage on, and behind, the battlefield. War of Attrition also establishes link between the bloody ground war in Europe and political situation in the wider world, particularly the United States. America did not enter the war until 1917, but, as Philpott demonstrates, the war came to America as early as 1914. By 1916, long before the Woodrow Wilson's impassioned speech to Congress advocating for war, the United States was firmly aligned with the Allies, lending dollars and selling guns and opposing German attempts to spread submarine warfare. War of Attrition skillfully argues that the emergence of the United States on the world stage is directly related to her support for the conflagration that consumed so many European lives and livelihoods. In short, the war that ruined Europe enabled the rise of America.
  table of contents: Introduction: 'the war is everything' -- Ready and willing -- Into battle -- Stalemate -- A people's war -- Mobilizing manpower -- Waging war -- War machines -- Controlling the seas -- Attack -- Counterattack -- Allied hopes -- The will to victory -- Germany's last cards -- Victory on all fronts -- Epilogue: 'the Great War for civilization'?
  note: William Philpott.
  note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    geographic: United States
    topic: Influence
  classification: D521 .P475 2014
  classification: 940.4
  identifier: 9781468302684 (hbk.)
  identifier: 146830268X (hbk.)
  identifier: 2014003285
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140127
    record change date: 20151206102548.0
    record identifier: in00003484516