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War of attrition : fighting the First World War /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Philpott, William James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Overlook Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 > United States > Influence.
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'?