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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... French and British on the other could breach the opponent's defenses . Seeking to resolve the deadlock in 1916 , Germany had launched a plan to turn the very impenetrability of the French defenses into the instrument of French ...
... French troops hud- dled in their winter greatcoats . They waited anxiously for warmer weather to permit the opening of the spring campaign . Their com- manders promised it was to be the last great drive of the war , the deci- sive turn ...
... French troops began to mutiny . Nivelle was dis- missed . The fear - struck French high command ordered executions of mutineers , some chosen by lot , in a desperate attempt to keep the re- maining troops at their posts in the trenches ...
... French Revolution more than a century earlier , the Great War of 1914 worked to exacerbate conflicts already cleaving American society . Though they owed their formal existence to the war crisis , both the National Securitv League and ...
... French Revolution . On that distant occasion , Thomas Jefferson had in the same breath lamented the bloodshed in Europe and prayed that the combat- ants might eat a great deal of American foodstuffs . So too in 1914. No one rejoiced in ...
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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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Over Here: The First World War and American Society David M. Kennedy,David Michael Kennedy Ограничен приказ - 1980 |