| Description |
1 online resource (493 pages) |
| Series |
Winston Churchill World Crisis Collection ; v. 3 |
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Winston Churchill World Crisis Collection
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| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; I The High Command; II The Blood Test; III Falkenhayn's Choice; IV Verdun; V Jutland: The Preliminaries; VI Jutland: The Encounter; VII The Battle of the Somme; VIII The Roumanian Disaster; IX The Intervention of the United States; X A Political Interlude; XI General Nivelle's Experiment; XII At the Ministry of Munitions; XIII The Munitions Budget; XIV The Autumn Struggle; XV Britain Conquers the U-Boats; XVI The German Concentration in the West; XVII The Twenty-First of March; XVIII The Climax; XIX The Surprise of the Chemin des Dames |
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XX The Unfought CampaignXXI The Turn of the Tide; XXII The Teutonic Collapse; XXIII Victory; Appendix; J British, French and German Casualty Returns; K Ally and German Battleship Strength, 1917; L Ministry of Munitions Council, 1917-18; M Munition Minutes, 1917; N Mechanical Power in the Offensive; O Tank Minutes; Notes |
| Summary |
A volume in Churchill's history of the First World War that is "essential reading, as fresh and compelling as ever" (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winston). This epic volume'third in a five-volume history of World War I from the eyewitness perspective of a highly-placed political insider'details Winston Churchill's development of the Ten Year Rule, which gave the Treasury unprecedented power over financial, foreign, and strategic policy for years to come. In March 1916, Winston Churchill returned to England to speak once more in the House of Commons. Appointed first Minister of Munitions, then later Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air, Churchill was in a prime position to observe and document the violent end of World War I. This volume provides context for the events that came before Churchill's return, including the intense battles of Jutland and Verdun. And it provides a rare perspective in the unbiased observances of a political leader with a journalist's eye for the truth and a historian's sense of significance'qualities which helped earn him a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780795331473 |
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0795331479 |
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