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Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of the Great War from a new perspective, stressing accident as much as strategy, the small as well as the great, the social as well as the military, and the long term as much as the short term. The Making of the First World War is global in scope. The book travels from the deliberately flooded fields of Belgium to the picture palaces of Britain's cinema, from the idealism of Wilson's Washington to the catastrophic German Lys offensive of 1918. While war is itself an agent of change, Beckett shows, the most significant developments occur not only on the battlefields or in the corridors of power, but also in hearts and minds. Nor may the decisive turning points during years of conflict be those that were thought to be so at the time. With its wide reach and unexpected conclusions, this book revises-and expands-our understanding of the legacy of the First World War.

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An abiding interest in the differences and similarities between American and European culture underlies much of Henry James' fiction, and that theme is also present throughout this collection of essays, many of which address various battles of World War I.

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Avec le front militaire et le front social, un troisième front, celui des finances de guerre, s’est ouvert en 1914. Par les ruptures et les bouleversements qu’il a engendrés en matière de financement et d’équilibres économiques et monétaires mondiaux, il constitue le véritable tournant du XXe siècle, celui de la dette publique et de l’inflation pour la plupart des pays belligérants. Ce thème a fait l’objet de la première manifestation scientifique du cycle des quatre journées d’études consacrées au ministère des Finances dans la Grande Guerre et dont cet ouvrage collectif est le fruit. Concentré sur la mobilisation des ressources financières des principaux pays belligérants et sur les ruptures engendrées par le conflit en termes de finances publiques, ce recueil de travaux inédits comble une lacune importante de l’historiographie française sur la dimension économique et financière de la Grande Guerre. La crise financière de l’été 1914, les ruptures monétaires et financières à l’échelle du monde, la mobilisation tous azimuts des ressources par les pays belligérants, l’appel aux épargnants, autant de thèmes novateurs qui sont ici traités, sans oublier les relations complexes entre le ministère des Finances et la banque centrale, ici revisitées. Le conflit engendre également des changements institutionnels, car une guerre non préparée suscite des improvisations et la pénurie est parfois source d’innovations : quel a été l’impact de la guerre sur les ressources financières de l’état à court et moyen termes ? Comment les circuits de l’argent se sont-ils modifiés ? Quelles formes a revêtues l’appel au patriotisme financier d’un pays à l’autre ? Un index des noms et une bibliographie thématique complètent cet ouvrage qui éclaire d’un jour nouveau une dimension essentielle du premier conflit du XXe siècle.

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Carols floating across no-man's-land on Christmas Eve 1914; solemn choruses, marches, and popular songs responding to the call of propaganda ministries and war charities; opera, keyboard suites, ragtime, and concertos for the left hand-all provided testimony to the unique power of music to chronicle the Great War and to memorialize its battles and fallen heroes in the first post-Armistice decade. In this striking book, Glenn Watkins investigates these variable roles of music primarily from the angle of the Entente nations' perceived threat of German hegemony in matters of intellectual and artistic accomplishment-a principal concern not only for Europe but also for the United States, whose late entrance into the fray prompted a renewed interest in defining America as an emergent world power as well as a fledgling musical culture. He shows that each nation gave "proof through the night"-ringing evidence during the dark hours of the war-not only of its nationalist resolve in the singing of national airs but also of its power to recall home and hearth on distant battlefields and to reflect upon loss long after the guns had been silenced. Watkins's eloquent narrative argues that twentieth-century Modernism was not launched full force with the advent of the Great War but rather was challenged by a new set of alternatives to the prewar avant-garde. His central focus on music as a cultural marker during the First World War of necessity exposes its relationship to the other arts, national institutions, and international politics. From wartime scores by Debussy and Stravinsky to telling retrospective works by Berg, Ravel, and Britten; from "La Marseillaise" to "The Star-Spangled Banner," from "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" to "Over There," music reflected society's profoundest doubts and aspirations. By turns it challenged or supported the legitimacy of war, chronicled misgivings in miniature and grandiose formats alike, and inevitably expressed its sorrow at the final price exacted by the Great War. Proof through the Night concludes with a consideration of the post-Armistice period when, on the classical music front, memory and distance forged a musical response that was frequently more powerful than in wartime.

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Henry Wilson was the only British field marshal ever to die in action, killed on his own doorstep in 1922 by two IRA men (one of whom had a wooden leg). Wilson was a flamboyant, maverick Irishman, at the centre of affairs during the First World War years and after, recording everything in his wildly indiscreet diary. Using a wide range of official and private sources, this is the first modern biography of this controversial and misunderstood figure. - ;Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, an Irishman who in June 1922 was assassinated on his doorstep in London by Irish republicans, was one of the mo

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