The World Before the War 1890-1914

Proud Tower - A Portrait of the World Before the War - 1890-1914

✍ Tuchman, Barbara W 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 5 MB

"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it." \--Barbara

A Portrait of the World Before the War - Proud Tower - 1890-1914

✍ Tuchman, Barbara W 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 4 MB

"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it." --Barbara W

VCs of the First World War: 1914

✍ Gliddon, Gerald 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 The History Press 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than 46 soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded Britain's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. In a series of mini-biographies, Gerald Gliddon examines the men and the dramatic events that led to the aw

The Wess'har Wars 3 - The World Before

✍ Traviss, Karen 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 215 KB

Bezeries is where the first contact between worlds has created a flashpoint in the battle to expand the universe--a place where a precarious ecology means the slightest misstep can result in death . . . or worse.

The marne, 1914 - the opening of world war I and the battle that changed the world

✍ Holger H. Herwig 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Random House 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB 👁 3 views

It is one of the essential events of military history, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars. This is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, giving, for the first time, all sides of the story. Military historian Holger

The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

✍ Holger H. Herwig 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 RANDOM HOUSE-UK 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: Chapter OneWar: "Now or Never"War is . . . an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.—carl von clausewitzSince i have been at the foreign office," arthur nicolson noted at Whitehall in May 1914, "I have not seen such calm waters."1 Europe had, in fact, refused to tear itself to p