With Our Backs to the Wall : Victory and Defeat in 1918 / David Stevenson.
2013
D530 .S74 2011x
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Title
With Our Backs to the Wall : Victory and Defeat in 1918 / David Stevenson.
Author
Stevenson, David, author.
ISBN
9780674063198
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (752 p.) : 30 halftones, 12 maps, 17 tables
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674063198 doi
Call Number
D530 .S74 2011x
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.4/58
Summary
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper-an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to its ominous end-the Allies' incomplete victory, and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later. In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict's endgame, David Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 from a truly international perspective, examining the positions and perspectives of combatants on both sides, as well as the impact of the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close attention to America's effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front politics. Alongside military and political developments, he adds new information about the crucial role of economics and logistics. The Allies' eventual success, Stevenson shows, was due to new organizational methods of managing men and materiel and to increased combat effectiveness resulting partly from technological innovation. These factors, combined with Germany's disastrous military offensive in spring 1918, ensured an Allied victory-but not a conclusive German defeat.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on Military and Naval Terminology
Preface
Maps
Prologue: Deadlock, 1914-1917
1. On the Defensive, March-July 1918
2. On the Attack: July-November 1918
3. The New Warfare: Intelligence, Technology, and Logistics
4. The Human Factor: Manpower and Morale
5. Securing the Seas: Submarines and Shipping
6. The War Economies: Money, Guns, and Butter
7. The Home Fronts: Gender, Class, and Nation
8. Armistice and After
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on Military and Naval Terminology
Preface
Maps
Prologue: Deadlock, 1914-1917
1. On the Defensive, March-July 1918
2. On the Attack: July-November 1918
3. The New Warfare: Intelligence, Technology, and Logistics
4. The Human Factor: Manpower and Morale
5. Securing the Seas: Submarines and Shipping
6. The War Economies: Money, Guns, and Butter
7. The Home Fronts: Gender, Class, and Nation
8. Armistice and After
Notes
Bibliography
Index