TY - BOOK AU - Lyons, Michael J. TI - World war I: a short history SN - 9780130205513 AV - GC D 521 .L96 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Prentice Hall Press KW - Lyons, Michael J., 1930- N1 - Includes Index; Uerope before 1914: Political, Social, and Economic Setting; The Great Powers and the Growth of tension; the Explosive Balkans;The July Crisis and the Outbreak of war; Great Expectation: War Plans and the Short War Illusion; 1914 Deadlock on the Western Front; 1914: Deadlock on the Eastern Front; 1915 the Western Front and Gallipoli; 1915 statement in the South, Allied Disaster in the East; 1916: the Hell of verdum and the Somme; War Aims and total War; Total War and the Home Fronts; The Russian Revolutions; the United States Enters the War; 1917: Crisis for the Allies; The War Outside Europe; 1918: Germany's Last Bid for victory; 1918: Collapse of the Central Powers 281; the Postwar Settlement 299; The Troubled Aftermath; Contents; Additional Reading ER -