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An edition of With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (2011)

With our backs to the wall

victory and defeat in 1918

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At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of thousands of young men dead and wounded for negligible territorial gains. Despite America's entry into the war the US army remained tiny, the Italian army had been routed, and Russia had dropped out of the conflict. The Central Powers now dominated Central and Eastern Europe, and Germany could move over forty divisions to the Western Front. Yet only one year later, on 11 November 1918, the fighting ended in a decisive Allied victory. Stevenson's rich and compelling book retells the story of 1918, and with penetrating original research goes to the very roots of this instrumental turning point in modern history. - Publisher.

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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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English
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726

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Campaigns, First World War, World War I, Western front, Social aspects, Economic aspects, Première Guerre mondiale, Campagnes et batailles, Aspect économique, Warfare and Defence, Economics, Military campaigns, Weltkrieg, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, western front, World war, 1914-1918, campaigns, World War, 1914-1918

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Western Front

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1914-1918

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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
Nov 18, 2013, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Belknap Press
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With Our Backs to the Wall: victory and defeat in 1918
2012, Penguin Books
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With Our Backs to the Wall
2011, Harvard University Press
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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat In 1918
2011, Penguin Books, Limited
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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
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Table of Contents

Deadlock, 1914-1917
On the defensive, March-July 1918
On the attack, July-November 1918
The new warfare: intelligence, technology, and logistics
The human factor: manpower and morale
Securing the seas: submarines and shipping
The war economies: money, guns, and butter
The home fronts: gender, class, and nation
Armistice and after.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 547-658) and index.

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940.4/34
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D531 .S73 2011, D531.S73 2011

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Hardcover
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xxi, 688 p.
Number of pages
726

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0674062264
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9780674062269
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2011011916
OCLC/WorldCat
709670290

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