Pandora's Box : a history of the First World War / Jörn Leonhard ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Leonhard, Jörn, author.; Camiller, Patrick, translator.
2018
D521 .L36513 2018eb
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Title Pandora's Box : a history of the First World War / Jörn Leonhard ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Author Leonhard, Jörn, author.
Uniform Title Büchse der Pandora. English
ISBN 9780674985421 (electronic book)
0674985427 (electronic book)
9780674545113
0674545117
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1087 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number D521 .L36513 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.3
Summary In this monumental history of World War I, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora's Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy, the everyday tactics of dynamic movement and slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers. But the war was much more than a military conflict, or an exclusively European one. Leonhard renders the perspectives of leaders, intellectuals, artists, and ordinary men and women on diverse home fronts as they grappled with the urgency of the moment and the rise of unprecedented political and social pressures. And he shows how the entire world came out of the war utterly changed. Postwar treaties and economic turbulence transformed geopolitics. Old empires disappeared or confronted harsh new constraints, while emerging countries struggled to find their place in an age of instability. At the same time, sparked and fueled by the shock and suffering of war, radical ideologies in Europe and around the globe swept away orders that had seemed permanent, to establish new relationships among elites, masses, and the state. Heralded on its publication in Germany as a masterpiece of historical narrative and analysis, Pandora's Box makes clear just what dangers were released when the guns first fired in the summer of 1914-- Provided by publisher.
Note "This book was first published as Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs © Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, München 2014."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Legacies: the First World War and Europe's long nineteenth century
Antecedents: crises and containment before 1914
Drift and escalation in summer and fall 1914
Stasis and movement: 1915
Wearing down and holding out: 1916
Expansion and erosion: 1917
Onrush and collapse: 1918
Outcomes: wars in peace and rival models of order, 1919-1923
Memories: fragmented experiences and polarized expectations
Burdens: the First World War and the century of global conflicts.

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