Author: Chickering, Roger & Forster, Stig: editors;
Title: Great War, Total War : Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,531 pp, Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute.. Textual photos,graphs,tables. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG. ¶ Contains 25 papers. Includes: H. Strachan: "From Cabinet war to Total War: The Perspective of Military Doctrine, 1861-1918"; R. Chickering: "World War I and the Theory of Total War: Reflections on the British and German Cases, 1 914-1915"; M. van Creveld: "World War I and the Revolution in Logistics"; D.E. Showalter: "Mass Warfare and the Impact of Technology"; R.Müller: " Total War as a Result of New Weapons? The Use of Chemical Agents in World War I";H.Afflerbach: "Planning Total War? Falkenhayn and the Battle of Verdun 1916"; W.U. Eckart: " 'The Most Extensive Experiment that Imagination Can Conceive': War, Emotional Stress, and German Medicine"; J. Horne & A. Kramer: "War Between Soldiers and Enemy Civilians, 1914-19 1 5"; A. Offer: "The Blockade of Germany and the Strategy of Starvation"; H. H. Herwig: "Total Rhetoric, Limited War: Germany's U-boat Campaign, 1917-19 18 " ; C. Geinitz: "The First Air War Against Noncombatants: Strategic Bombing of German Cities in World War I"; M. Frey "Bullying the Neutrals: The Case of the Netherlands"; J.F.V. Keiger: "Poincaré, Clemenceau, and the Quest for Total Victory"; W. Deist: "Strategy and Unlimited Warfare in Germany: Moltke, Falkenhayn, and Ludendorff"; D. French: "The Strategy of Unlimited Warfare: Kitchener, Robertson, and Haig"; D. Stevenson: "French Strategy on the Western Front, 1914-1918"; R.F. Weigley: "Strategy and Total War in the United States: Pershing and the American Military Tradition";..

Keywords: Military History, Western Front, World War One, Mobilisation, Mobilization, Total Warfare, , ,