1917 : war, peace, and revolution /

1917 was a year of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. Historian David Stevenson examines the year in context and illuminates the century that followed. Two developments in particular, the Russian Revolution and American intervention, had worldwide repercussions. Offering a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stevenson, D. (David), 1954- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918. World War, 1914-1918 > Influence. World War, 1914-1918 > Diplomatic history. Nineteen seventeen, A.D.

Table of Contents:

Atlantic prologue: Unleashing the u-boats
Enter America
Britain adopts convoys
Continental impasse: Tsar Nicholas abdicates
France attacks
Kerensky Offensive
road to Passchendaele
collapse at Caporetto
peace moves and their rejection
Global repercussions: spread of intervention: Greece, Brazil, Siam, China
responsible government for India
a Jewish national home
Towards 1918: Lenin's revolution, the Ludendorff Offensives, and Wilson's fourteen points.