Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: Putnam Aeronautical Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Britain in the Century of Total War: War, Peace and Social Change, 1900-1967
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: Putnam Aeronautical Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher: Putnam Aeronautical Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Total War and Social Change
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919574X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A collection of essays supported by statistics on the social consequences of the two world wars. It covers the main European countries and a range of major issues including the levels of economic activity, women's employment and the extent of executions of collaborators.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919574X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A collection of essays supported by statistics on the social consequences of the two world wars. It covers the main European countries and a range of major issues including the levels of economic activity, women's employment and the extent of executions of collaborators.
Britain in the Century of Total War
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Offers a general explanation of how war, in itself brutalizing and destructive, can assist social change. Participation in war brings new status to depressed classes within the community. Provides a comprehensive social history of modern Britain.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Offers a general explanation of how war, in itself brutalizing and destructive, can assist social change. Participation in war brings new status to depressed classes within the community. Provides a comprehensive social history of modern Britain.
A World at Total War
Author: Roger Chickering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521834322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521834322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.
The War Inside
Author: Michal Shapira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"In recent years the field of modern history has been enriched by the exploration of two parallel histories. These are the social and cultural history of armed conflict, and the impact of military events on social and cultural history"--
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"In recent years the field of modern history has been enriched by the exploration of two parallel histories. These are the social and cultural history of armed conflict, and the impact of military events on social and cultural history"--
The Shadows of Total War
Author: Roger Chickering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521812364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521812364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.
Britain's War Machine
Author: David Edgerton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small. Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small. Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.
Great War, Total War
Author: Roger Chickering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521773522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521773522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.
The Western Front
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1846075823
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Richard Holmes brings the Western Front to life in this detailed and authoritative text, in a way that goes deep beneath scholarly debate, ripping off the veneer of cliche which now covers the war as it really was."
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1846075823
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Richard Holmes brings the Western Front to life in this detailed and authoritative text, in a way that goes deep beneath scholarly debate, ripping off the veneer of cliche which now covers the war as it really was."
War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description