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The Greater War

Other Combatants and Other Fronts, 1914-1918

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Krause

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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  • Provides a global history of the First World War with essays covering a range of case studies from the French, German, Italian, American and the Middle Eastern colonial campaigns
  • Explores both the cultural and strategic elements of the conflict
  • The authors include renowned historians of WWI as well as some newly emergent academics

Part of the book series: Studies in Military and Strategic History (SMSH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonathan Krause
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Battle of the Ardennes, August 1914: France’s Lost Opportunity

    • Simon House
    Pages 7-25

  4. ‘Only Inaction Is Disgraceful’: French Operations Under Joffre, 1914–1916

    • Jonathan Krause
    Pages 26-45

  5. The Influence of Industry on the Use and Development of Artillery

    • Alex Bostrom
    Pages 46-63

  6. Missed Opportunity? The French Tanks in the Nivelle Offensive

    • Tim Gale
    Pages 64-81

  7. Applying Colonial Lessons to European War: The British Expeditionary Force 1902–1914

    • Spencer Jones
    Pages 82-100

  8. Jan Smuts, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in German East Africa

    • Stuart Mitchell
    Pages 101-122

  9. The Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Battles for Jerusalem: Command and Tactics in the Judaean Hills, November–December 1917

    • Christopher Newton
    Pages 123-140

  10. A Picture of German Unity? Federal Contingents in the German Army, 1916–1917

    • Tony Cowan
    Pages 141-160

  11. Out of the Trenches: Hitler, Wagner and German National Regeneration After the Great War 1914–1918

    • David Ian Hall
    Pages 161-176

  12. Training, Morale and Battlefield Performance in the Italian Army, 1914–1917

    • Vanda Wilcox
    Pages 177-194

  13. Seasoning the US 2nd Infantry Division

    • B. T. Smith
    Pages 195-216

  14. From the Essex to the Dresden: British Grand Strategy in the South Pacific, 1814–1915

    • Andrew Lambert
    Pages 217-234

  15. Attrition: How the War Was Fought and Won

    • William Philpott
    Pages 235-254

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 255-260
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The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of essays covers new aspects of the French, German, Italian and American efforts in the First World War, as well as aspects of Britain's colonial campaigns.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Jonathan Krause

About the editor

Simon House, Independent Historian, UK Alex Bostrom, University of Oxford, UK Tim Gale, Independent Historian, UK Spencer Jones, Research Fellow in War Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK Stuart Mitchell, Senior Lecturer, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK Christopher Newton, King's College, London, UK Tony Cowan, King's College, London, UK David Hall, Senior Lecturer, Joint Services Command and Staff College, King's College, London, UK Vanda Wilcox, Assistant Professor, John Cabot University, Italy Bryon Smith, Lt.-Commander, United States Navy, USA Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, King's College, London, UK William Philpott, Professor of the History of Warfare, King's College, London, UK

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