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020 _a9780130205513
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050 _aGC D 521 .L96 2000
100 _aLyons, Michael J.
245 0 _aWorld war I: a short history
260 _aPrentice Hall Press
_c2000
300 _a354 pages
_bxiv, 354 p.; 23 cm
365 _b230
504 _aIncludes Index
505 _aUerope 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
650 _aLyons, Michael J., 1930-
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