World War I Companion

World War I Companion

World War I Companion

World War I Companion

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Overview

A wide-ranging and incisive collection of articles covering all aspects of World War I, written by some of the leading academics in the field.

World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent.

It was a conflict unparalleled in its scale, which in turn fuelled devastatingly rapid developments in military technology, technique and innovation as the belligerent powers sought to break the deadlock on the Western Front and elsewhere.

In the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict, 14 renowned historians from around the world examine some of the key aspects of the war, providing a wide-ranging analysis of the whole conflict beyond but including the stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472807106
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 11/20/2013
Series: General Military
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Dr. Matthias Strohn was educated at the Universities of Muenster (Germany) and Oxford. Since 2006 he has been a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and in 2011 he was also made a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. He holds a commission in the German army and is currently a member of the military attache reserve. He has published widely on 20th century German and European military history.

More than a dozen leading historians from either side of the Atlantic have collaborated: Major Richard Winters (Ret), Dr Duncan Anderson, Ronald J Drez, Carlo D'Este, Dr Andrew Gordon, Dr Christina J M Goulter, Dr David I Hall, Professor Russell Hart, Dr Stephen A Hart, Professor Allan R Millett, Professor Williamson Murray, Professor Samuel J Newland and Professor Dennis Showalter.
Gary Sheffield is Professor of War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He was previously Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, held a personal chair at King's College London, UK, and was Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He has published widely on military history.
Dr Matthias Strohn FRHistS was educated at the universities of Münster (Germany) and Oxford. He has lectured at Oxford University and the German Staff College (Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr).

From 2006 until 2016 he worked as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is currently on secondment to the British Army's think tank, the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research in Camberley. In addition, he is a Reader at the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Buckingham where he works in the areas of Military History and War Studies. He holds a commission in the German Army and is a member of the military attaché reserve, having served on the defence attaché staffs in London, Paris, and Madrid.

He has published widely on 20th-century German and European military history and is an expert on the German Army in World War I and the inter-war period. He has advised British and German government bodies on the World War I centenary commemorations.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Foreword by Professor Gary Sheffield

Chapter 1 Commanding Through Armageddon
Allied Senior Leadership in World War I
Professor Michael S. Neiberg

Chapter 2 German Operational Thinking in World War I
Major Dr Thorsten Loch

Chapter 3 The Expansion of the British Army During World War I
Major Bruce Gudmundsson

Chapter 4 World War I Aviation
From Reconnaissance to the Modern Air Campaign
Dr James S. Corum

Chapter 5 The Global War at Sea, 1914–18
Professor Dr Michael Epkenhans

Chapter 6 The French Army Between Tradition and Modernity
Weaponry, Tactics, and Soldiers 1914–18
Professor Dr François Cochet

Chapter 7 German Tactical Doctrine and the Defensive Battle on the Western Front
Dr Matthias Strohn

Chapter 8 The Rollercoaster of Austria-Hungary's World War I Experience
Professor Dr Lothar Höbelt

Chapter 9 The Imperial Russian Army and the Eastern Front in World War I, 1914–17
Dr Stephen Walsh

Chapter 10 ANZACs and the Rocky Road to Tactical Effectiveness, 1916–17
Dr Andrew Macdonald

Chapter 11 A Sideshow of a Sideshow?
The Arab Revolt (1916–18) and the Development of Modern Desert Warfare
Dr David Murphy

Chapter 12 The Reluctant Pupil
The American Army on the Western Front, 1917–18
Professor Andrew Wiest

Chapter 13 The German Occupation of the Ukraine, 1918
Blitzkrieg and Insurgencies
Dr Peter Lieb

Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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