A World War One Fact Book

At the dawn of the information age, the First World War produced blizzards of information, contained in countless official reports. Almost anything you can think of was recorded, from how many prisoners were taken in a given battle to the number of troops in each age group who contracted a venereal disease. Yet this variety of data is indispensible for understanding how Europe became locked in a devastating stalemate for four long years, and how the Central Powers were finally defeated, only four months after they seemed on the verge of victory. The number of countries involved, the scale of military and civilian involvement and the all-consuming nature of this new, mechanised 'total war' make it almost impossible for traditional narrative history to interpret its many aspects in depth. The World War I Fact Book gives the reader access to the most important and revealing numbers available, using a variety of graphic tools to illustrate the raw data, for a uniquely concise and informative account of the 'war to end all wars'.

ISBN 1848684479   Pages 128 ISBN13 9781848684478 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 476 Publisher Amberley Publishing   Published in Stroud Imprint Amberley Publishing   Height (mm) 231 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 155 Publication date 01 Jun 2010   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 940.3   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Acknowledgements		7
		Preface		8
1		The Population explodes		9
2		The industrial revolution		10
3		Growth of wealth and empires		11
4		19th century wars		13
5		Preparing for war		14
6		The opposing forces		15
7		Men and weapons		16
		The terrorists		16
8		Rolling the iron dice		17
9		Mobilization		18
		Cannon		18
10		Howitzers and high power guns		19
11		Long range guns and mortars		20
12		Machine and mobile heavy guns		21
13		Causes of wounds		22
14		The West in 1914		23
15		The German armies in the West		24
16		The Schleiffen Plan		25
17		First battle of the Marne		26
18		Casualties in the West		27
19		First Ypres		28
20		Serbia in 1914		29
		The Eastern Front in 1914		29
21		Poland, Russia, and Galicia		30
22		Tannenberg		31
23		Casualties in the East		32
		The Ottomans and the Japanese		32
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