View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.
aNeiberg offers an excellent primer for anyone studying the
Great War. The bookas strength is its scope. As they proceed from
aPart One: Causesa to aPart Six: Peacea (with most sections
offering two primary and two secondary sources), readers will learn
from both sides about major leaders, the home front, soldiers and
officers in battle, and the politics of peace.a
--"Library Journal"
"a][A] valuable text to introduce students to the broad
parameters of World War I. Students whose intellectual appetites
are whetted by this collection will appreciate the extensive list
of books matched to each category at the end of the book."
--"The Journal of Military History"
""The Great War of 1914-1918" is increasingly understood as the
defining event of the twentieth century. . . . Neiberg has done a
remarkable job of covering all the appropriate bases and tipping
his intellectual hat to the major schools of thought past and
present."
--Dennis Showalter, author of "Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the
Twentieth Century"
"This first-rate collection of primary documents and excerpts
from leading historical works on World War I allows students to
enter directly into current debates surrounding the war's meaning
and significance. These selections provide a window into the varied
wartime experiences of statesmen, generals, women, and soldiers,
challenging students to discard over-simplistic interpretations of
the war."
--Jennifer D. Keene, author of "Doughboys, the Great War, and the
Remaking of America"
Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed,
World War I continues to be badly understood and
greatlyoversimplified. Its enormous impact on the world in terms of
international diplomacy and politics, and the ways in which future
military engagements would evolve, be fought, and ultimately get
resolved have been ignored. With this reader of primary and
secondary documents, edited and compiled by Michael S. Neiberg,
students, scholars, and war buffs can gain an extensive yet
accessible understanding of this conflict. Neiberg introduces the
basic problems in the history of World War I, shares the words and
experiences of the participants themselves, and, finally, presents
some of the most innovative and dynamic current scholarship on the
war.
Neiberg, a leading historian of World War I, has selected a wide
array of primary documents, ranging from government papers to
personal diaries, demonstrating the war's devastating effect on all
who experienced it, whether President Woodrow Wilson, an English
doughboy in the trenches, or a housewife in Germany. In addition to
this material, each chapter in The World War I Reader contains a
selection of articles and book chapters written by major scholars
of World War I, giving readers perspectives on the war that are
both historical and contemporary. Chapters are arranged
chronologically and by theme, and address causes, the experiences
of soldiers and their leaders, battlefield strategies and
conditions, home front issues, diplomacy, and peacemaking. A
time-line, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a substantive
introduction by Neiberg that lays out the historiography of World
War I round out the book.
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