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John Keegan: The First World War John Keegan: The First World War

The ​First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation.

Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood)… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1998

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Knopf, New York, 1999
476 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 0375700455
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Hutchinson, London, 1998
500 oldal · ISBN: 0091801788

Népszerű idézetek

Laura_Arkanian IP>!

Moltke and the Great General Saff responded to the difficulty by ignoring it.

Page 58 - Chapter 2: War Plans

Laura_Arkanian IP>!

Given enough well-led and well-motivated infantry, the European military theorists believed, no line of trenches could be held against them.

Page 36 - Chapter 1: A European Tragedy

Laura_Arkanian IP>!

…a weight of fire unimaginable by any commander in any previous period of warfare…

Page 38 - Chapter 1: A European Tragedy

Laura_Arkanian IP>!

What had not been perceived is that firepower takes effect only if it can be directed in timely and accurate fashion. That requires communication. […]The communication necessary to such coordination demands, if not instantaneity, then certainly the shortest possible interval between observation and response. Nothing in the elaborate equipment of the European armies of the early twentieth century provided such facility.

Page 39 - Chapter 1: A European Tragedy

Laura_Arkanian IP>!

All European armies in 1904 had long-laid military plans, notable in most cases for their inflexibility.

Page 46 - Chapter 2: War Plans

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Schlieffen continued to tinker with his plan, even in retirement, until his death in 1912. He had no other occupation. He was a man without hobbies.

Page 50 - Chapter 2: War Plans

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…defeat the English and continue the operations against the French; no allowance of time made for that delay.

Page 54 - Chapter 2: War Plans

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It is at this point that a careful reader of the Great Memorandum recognises a plan falling apart: Map 3 in no way shows how the new corps are to advance or to invest Paris […]. The corps simply appear, with no indication of how they have reached Paris and its outskirts.

Page 56 - Chapter 2: War Plans

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…but settled affairs, as was traditional, by ad hoc international treaty.

Page 35 - Chapter 1: A European Tragedy

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There was still thought to be a role for cavalry, in which European armies abounded.

Page 36 - Chapter 1: A European Tragedy


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