World War I Companion: : Gary Sheffield: Osprey Publishing

World War I Companion

Description

A wide-ranging and incisive collection of articles covering all aspects of World War I, written by some of the leading academics in the field.

World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent.

It was a conflict unparalleled in its scale, which in turn fuelled devastatingly rapid developments in military technology, technique and innovation as the belligerent powers sought to break the deadlock on the Western Front and elsewhere.

In the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict, 14 renowned historians from around the world examine some of the key aspects of the war, providing a wide-ranging analysis of the whole conflict beyond but including the stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front.

Contributors
Foreword by Professor Gary Sheffield

Chapter 1 Commanding Through Armageddon
Allied Senior Leadership in World War I
Professor Michael S. Neiberg

Chapter 2 German Operational Thinking in World War I
Major Dr Thorsten Loch

Chapter 3 The Expansion of the British Army During World War I
Major Bruce Gudmundsson

Chapter 4 World War I Aviation
From Reconnaissance to the Modern Air Campaign
Dr James S. Corum

Chapter 5 The Global War at Sea, 1914–18
Professor Dr Michael Epkenhans

Chapter 6 The French Army Between Tradition and Modernity
Weaponry, Tactics, and Soldiers 1914–18
Professor Dr François Cochet

Chapter 7 German Tactical Doctrine and the Defensive Battle on the Western Front
Dr Matthias Strohn

Chapter 8 The Rollercoaster of Austria-Hungary's World War I Experience
Professor Dr Lothar Höbelt

Chapter 9 The Imperial Russian Army and the Eastern Front in World War I, 1914–17
Dr Stephen Walsh

Chapter 10 ANZACs and the Rocky Road to Tactical Effectiveness, 1916–17
Dr Andrew Macdonald

Chapter 11 A Sideshow of a Sideshow?
The Arab Revolt (1916–18) and the Development of Modern Desert Warfare
Dr David Murphy

Chapter 12 The Reluctant Pupil
The American Army on the Western Front, 1917–18
Professor Andrew Wiest

Chapter 13 The German Occupation of the Ukraine, 1918
Blitzkrieg and Insurgencies
Dr Peter Lieb

Endnotes
Bibliography
Index