Format:
1 online resource (424 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444351453
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series v.5
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- History -- Dedication -- List of Maps -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: The European Paradox -- Chapter 2: The Coming of War -- 2.1 A Balkans War -- 2.2 Why the War Need Not Have Spread -- 2.3 Why the War Spread -- Chapter 3: Fighting the War -- 3.1 The Opening Gambits: 1914 -- 3.2 The Elusive Victory: 1915 -- 3.3 The High Noon of Attrition: 1916 -- 3.4 The Tipping Point: 1917 -- 3.5 Defeat and Victory: 1918 -- Chapter 4: Ending the War: Revolutions and Peacemaking -- 4.1 The Home Front in Wartime -- 4.2 Revolution in Russia -- 4.3 Revolution in Germany -- 4.4 The Legacy of War and the Treaty of Versailles -- 4.5 Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean -- 4.6 Western Upheavals -- 4.7 The Fascist Revolution in Italy -- Chapter 5: Revision and Recovery, 1919-1929 -- 5.1 From Versailles to the Dawes Plan -- 5.2 From Locarno to the Young Plan -- 5.3 Economy and Society: A Faltering Recovery -- 5.4 A Contested Modernity -- Chapter 6: The High Noon of the Dictators -- 6.1 Economic Armageddon: The Great Depression in Europe -- 6.2 The Rise of the Nazis, 1919-1933 -- 6.3 Hitler in Power, 1933-1939 -- 6.4 Dictatorship beyond Germany -- Chapter 7: The Return to War -- 7.1 From Global Disarmament to War: 1932-1939 -- 7.2 The Reasons for War -- 7.3 From Poland to the Fall of France: September 1939-June 1940 -- 7.4 From Vichy to Pearl Harbor: June 1940-December 1941 -- Chapter 8: Europe Eclipsed -- 8.1 Competing Caesuras: 1940-1 or 1945? -- 8.2 Hitler's War - from Triumph to Oblivion, 1941-1945 -- 8.3 Holocaust -- Chapter 9: Europe: An Honorable Legacy? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Eula.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780631215110
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780631215110
Language:
English
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