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World War I
- Title
- World War I / Rodney P. Carlisle.
- Author
- Carlisle, Rodney P.
- Publication
- New York : Facts On File, Inc., [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- x, 454 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "World War I, a volume in Facts On File's acclaimed Eyewitness History series, provides hundreds of firsthand accounts of the period - diary entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper accounts - that illustrate how important historical events appeared to those who lived through them. In addition to firsthand accounts, each chapter includes an introductory essay and a chronology of events. The book also includes excerpts from such critical documents as the Zimmermann note, President Woodrow Wilson's War Message to Congress, and the Covenant of the League from the Versailles Treaty, as well as capsule biographies of 58 key figures, 17 maps, one table, 102 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, a glossary, notes, a bibliography, and an index."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Eyewitness history
- Uniform Title
- Eyewitness history.
- Alternative Title
- World War One
- World War 1
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-437) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The spark and the fuel : 1903-August 1914 -- 2. First battles and the western front stalemate : August 1914-November 1915 -- 3. The early war on and beneath the sea : August 1914-December 1916 -- 4. Gallipoli and Arabia : October 1914-November 1918 -- 5. The eastern front and Russia : August 1914-March 1918 -- 6. Debacles on the western front : December 1915-December 1916 -- 7. Woodrow Wilson and the dilemmas of neutrality : August 1914-January 1917 -- 8. U.S. entry into the war : November 1916-April 1917 -- 9. The home front in the United States : April 1917-November 1918 -- 10. The calculus of death : January 1917-November 1918 -- 11. The peace conference and the treaty of versailles : November 11, 1918-March 4, 1921 -- 12. Lost generation in the 1920s : 1919-1927.
- ISBN
- 0816060614
- 9780816060610
- LCCN
- 2005027236
- OCLC
- OCM61704720
- 61704720
- SCSB-5299907
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries