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The Treaty of Versailles
This text scrutinizes the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the various politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the Treaty of Versailles.
Anticipating Total War
The essays in Anticipating Total War explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914. The concept of "total war" provides the analytical focus. The essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare in several forums among soldiers, statesmen, women's groups, and educators on both sides of the Atlantic. Predictions of long, cataclysmic wars were not uncommon in these discussions, while the involvement of German and American soldiers in colonial warfare suggested that future combat would not spare civilians. Despite these "anticipations of total war," virtually no one realized the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century.
The Deliberations of the Council of Four (March 24-June 28, 1919): To the Delivery to the German Delegation of the Preliminaries of Peace ; Volume II: From the Delivery of the Peace Terms to the German Delegation to the Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Om fredsforhandlingerne i Versailles 1918-1919 efter afslutningen af 1. Verdenskrig. Council of Four bestod af Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando og Lloyd George, nedsat efter forslag fra den amerikanske Præsident Wilson, og havde til opgave at gennemgå resultatet af arbejdet i alle underkommissionerne og træffe de afgørende beslutninger omkring indholdet af fredsaftalen/fredsbetingelserne med det Tyskland, den tabende part i den lange og blodige krig. Oversætteren Mantoux var til stede under alle rådets forhandlinger og drøftelser, og det er hans omhyggeligt nedskrevne notater og referater fra disse møder, som i dette to binds værk er oversat til engelsk og bearbejdet og redigeret a...
The Deliberations of the Council of Four, March 24-June 28, 1919
The Council of Four--Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Orlando--was formed at Wilson's suggestion to consider a number of major questions revolving around the Paris Peace Conference. This work comprises the transcripts of those discussions made by the French interpreter, Paul-Joseph Mantoux, from March 24 through June 28, 1919. Mantoux published an unannotated version of these transcripts in two volumes in 1955. The present English-language edition makes available to a worldwide reading public an indispensable source for the study of the conference. Mantoux was present at all sessions of the Four, and his transcripts of their conversations are the only record of them during the first thi...
The Shadows of Total War
The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.
The Betrayal
At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The Allied answer to this conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the thirteen Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 1949, and in corresponding cases elsewhere, a concerted effort was made to punish key perpetrators while at the same time providing a complex analysis of the Nazi state and German history. Building on a long debate about Germany's divergence fr...
Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered
When A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War appeared in 1961 it made a profound impact. The book became a classic and a central point of reference in all discussion on the Second World War. The second edition of this distinguished collection, written by leading experts in the field, is designed to bring the state of the argument up to date. The issues discussed include: * the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles * Hitlers foreign policy * Appeasement * AJP Taylor and the Russians * the treatment of the crises leading up to war including the Anschluss, Danzig, Abysinnian crises and the Spanish Civil War. This second edition will ensure that The Origins of the Second World War will remain a high priority student and scholarly reading lists.
After Clausewitz
"But Echevarria disputes this traditional view and convincingly shows that these theorists - Boguslawski, Goltz, Schlieffen, Hoening, and their American and European counterparts - were not the architects of outmoded theories. In fact, they duly appreciated the implications of the vast advances in modern weaponry (as well as in transportation and communications) and set about finding solutions that would restore offensive maneuver to the battlefield."--BOOK JACKET.
Great War, Total War
World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.
