Over Here: The First World War and American SocietyOUP USA, 16. 9. 2004. - 428 страница The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. |
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... Europe , even to compete with Europe for a definition of the war's meaning and for the fruits of victory . Moreover , the war temporarily required the United.
... Europeans . Yet somehow millions of persons in the strikingly voluntaristic and fragmented society that was early twentieth - century America ( as described in the Prologue ) had to be made to perform in concert their appointed parts ...
... Europe since August 1914. Men had then gone eagerly to battle , expecting swift victory . But two and a half years of fighting had killed five million of them . Those still living waited wearily in the frigid early months of 1917 ...
... Europe touched off a veritable bonfire of rage . Soldiers had been slaughtered by the millions , peasants had been herded unarmed into battle , civilians had been subjected to unspeakable suffering — and yet the Czar's government ...
... workers to arms . Soon he would demand withdrawal from the war , insulating Rus- sia from the imminent European collapse . The new Soviet state could then serve as the fountain of socialist revolution that Lenin PROLOGUE : SPRING , 1917 9.
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The War for the American Mind | 45 |
The Political Economy of War The Home Front | 93 |
Youre in the Army Now | 144 |
Over There and Back | 191 |
Armistice and Aftermath | 231 |
The Political Economy of War The International Dimension | 296 |
Promises of Glory | 348 |
Afterword | 371 |
Bibliography | 391 |
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