Looking for info on WWI

[Nocturnal]

Mainly a book or books that covers the following topics in great detail:

The course of the Great War
- Immediate and long term causes
- Failures of diplomacy and arms
- Strategies and battles

The characteristics of the Great War
- Trench war & war of attrition
- Attitudes and experiences of soldiers
- Effect of new weapons on man and nature

The consequences of the Great War
- What it did to the generation that fought it
- What it did to the values and institutions of the West
- What important devlopements, movements, and events came out of it

If you can help name any book that will cover these topics I'd be so greatful. Thank you.

I'm not really asking for anyone to do the research for me. I just want to know if anyone can recommend some books that maybe they have used in the past to do a research/essay on WWI.

 

[Heisenberg]

We really need a "Help me with my homework" forum.

 

Immediate causes: assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, sinking of Lusitania passenger ship.
Long term causes: continued assault by Germans on passenger ships, refusal to consider passenger ships as neutral vessels, and basically all-around aggressiveness by the Germans. U.S. involvement in the war was short compared to lengths of war for other nations.

 

[oniq]

You want to go into WWI? Good luck !@#

 

Well, it's a novel, but the book Company K is a great, fast read about a fictional army company in WWI. It's very interesting and you'll like it, I'm sure. Not sure if it's the type of book you're looking for though (it's not fact based).

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

At present, I am working my way through,"At War At Sea" by Ronald H. Spector..ISBN 0-670-86085-9.
The first 140 pages detail operations and status of the worlds Navies from 1900-1920. R.H.Spector is considered one of the top researchers and documenters of world combat. "Eagle Against The Sun" is a must read for Pacific Theater WW2.

WW1 boils down to a squabble among aristocrats/royalty of Europe. The Russian Revolution was bound to happen after her humiliating defeat by Japan in 1906(?) The Russo Japanese war. The Lusitania was transporting howitzers and
munitions, the Germans knew it, sank her. The Japanese contributed little but picked up some prizes at the end of WW1
as they were allies with Britain. The trench warfare was a result of studies done by European Militarist of The War Between The States better known as The U.S.Civil War(there was nothing civil about it ). The use of chemical agents,
much improved automatic weapons did not play well for the grunts in the dirt. Aeroplanes were best used for spotting artilery fire and troop movements. In the final tally bi-planes shooting at eachother did not amount to much only the glory and bragging rights of a few. Your welcome

 

[0roo0roo]

ask yourself why it was called the great war. it was never supposed to happen again, like the great depression etc. hehhe whoops league of nations? no one would risk total war!! whoops

 

[So]

The Guns of August does a good job over covering the leadup to the war and the first month of fighting.

 

[KeithP]

You might want to google "History of the World War" by Francis A. March. I recently found a copy of the this book in some stuff that was being thrown out, it was printed in 1919. I haven't read much of it yet, but given when it was written, it should be a much more interesting read than later books written on the subject.

-Keith

 

[Brutuskend]

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[MBony]

If you're interested in a DVD (similar to Band of Brothers) you might check out The Lost Battalion. You can probably find it at your local library.