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" The First World War / "
Keith Robbins.
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BL
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963902
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b718272
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| Main Entry
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Robbins, Keith.
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| Title & Author
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The First World War /\ Keith Robbins.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 1984
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1 online resource (x, 187 pages) :: maps
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| ISBN
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0191567108
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: 0192803182
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: 9780191567100
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: 9780192803184
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword; Preface; 1 Entrances and Deaths; 2 Land Warfare; 3 Modes of Warfare; 4 Belligerent Aims; 5 Home Management; 6 The Experience of War; Further Reading; Biographical Notes; Index.
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| Abstract
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This book gives a clear chronological account of the campaigns on the Western and Eastern Fronts and then moves on to investigate areas that many studies ignore - the war poets, the diplomacy of war-aims and peace moves, logistics, and 'the experience of the war'. - ;The tragic slaughter of the trenches is imprinted on modern memory; but it is more difficult to grasp the wider extent and significance of the First World War. This book gives a clear chronological account of the campaigns on the Western and Eastern Fronts and then moves on to investigate areas that many studies ignore - the war p.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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HISTORY-- Military-- World War I.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.3
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D521.R58 2003eb
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