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1917 - War, Peace, and Revolution (Paperback)
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1917 - War, Peace, and Revolution (Paperback)
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1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance
in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and
Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson,
examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century
that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was
transformed, but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it
continued to escalate. Two developments in particular-the Russian
Revolution and American intervention-had worldwide repercussions.
Offering a close examination of the key decisions, Stevenson
considers Germany's campaign of 'unrestricted' submarine warfare,
America's declaration of war in response, and Britain's frustration
of German strategy by adopting the convoy system, as well as why
(paradoxically) the military and political stalemate in Europe
persisted. Focusing on the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, on the
disastrous spring offensive that plunged the French army into
mutiny, on the summer attacks that undermined the moderate
Provisional Government in Russia and exposed Italy to national
humiliation at Caporetto, and on the British decision for the
ill-fated Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 1917 offers a
truly international understanding of events. The failed attempts to
end the war by negotiation further clarify the underlying forces
that kept it going. David Stevenson also analyses the global
consequences of the year's developments, showing how countries such
as Brazil and China joined the belligerents, Britain offered
'responsible government' to India, and the Allies promised a Jewish
national home in Palestine. Blending political and military
history, and moving from capital to capital and between the cabinet
chamber and the battle front, the book highlights the often
tumultuous debates through which leaders entered and escalated the
war, and the paradox that continued fighting could be justified as
the shortest road towards regaining peace.
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