"Macmillan Education"--Spine. Revised and updated edition of: The Western Front, battleground and home front in the First World War / Hunt Tooley. 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Origins, preconditions, outbreak -- 2. Mobility and unity -- 3. Stalemate and mobilization, 1915/1916 -- 4. Innovation, persuasion, centralization -- 5. The crucible of war: 1916 -- 6. 1917: New strains, new war -- 7. Transformations: politics, culture, warfare -- 8. Collapse, armistice, conclusions.
Summary:
"This revised and updated introduction to World War One crosses the boundaries of national histories to examine the various connections between the 400-mile-long Western Front and the home fronts of the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and the USA. Incorporating recent research, Hunt Tooley rethinks the patterns of war, society, culture and politics in the early twentieth-century"-- Provided by publisher.
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