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11:00 pm 19/12/2011
marksyzm
And now I'm reading about why it even started. Always been meaning to- thanks for the thread
1:02 am 20/12/2011
WolfenUWG
Just took a class on modern european military history... if you want more on WWI, here are some books to check out:
Isabel Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2005) ISBN 978-0-8014-7293-0.
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000) ISBN
0395937582.
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975) ISBN 9780195133325.
Gary Sheffield, Forgotten Victory: The First World War, Myths and Realities (London: Headline Review, 2001) ISBN 978-
0747264606. This work is not available from the bookstore; it must be ordered online.
Mark Thompson, The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 (Basic Books: 2010) 978-0465020379.
Hope this list is useful to someone!
9:39 am 20/12/2011
marksyzm
Anyone know a good detailed online walkthrough? Wiki's one just seems to tell you that one country waged war with another and so forth as more or less a way of flexing their military strength, and it was purely a want of gain on the German/Ottoman etc's empires? Is that all there was to it?
Astonishing also that the allies lost more than twice the number of men over it despite having almost every other country involved
2:42 pm 20/12/2011
griffin
This might help:
http://www.historymole.com/cgi-bin/main/results.pl?theme=10001037
This on the causes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_world_war_one
3:00 pm 20/12/2011
marksyzm
Thanks griff - I will read later while Sara is trying to get the little one to sleep