Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918
- ISBN-10
- 0521773520
- ISBN-13
- 9780521773522
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 531
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-09-11
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Stig Förster, Roger Chickering
Description
World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.
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- 2006-04-27
- 544 pages
- Paperback
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