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020			_a9780198702382 _q(hardback)
020			_a0198702388 _q(hardback)
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100	1		_aStevenson, D. _q(David), _d1954- _eauthor. _910052
245	1	0	_a1917 : _bwar, peace, and revolution / _cDavid Stevenson.
246	3		_aNineteen seventeen, war, peace, and revolution
246	3	0	_aWar, peace, and revolution
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_axxv, 480 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 451-466) and index.
505	0		_aPart 1. Atlantic Prologue -- Unleashing the U-boats -- Enter America -- Britain adopts convoys -- Part 2. Continental Impasse. Tsar Nicholas abdicates -- France attacks -- The Kerensky offensive -- The road to Passchendaele -- Collapse at Caporetto -- Peace moves and their rejection -- Part 3. Global Repercussions. The spread of intervention : Greece, Brazil, Siam, China -- Responsible government for India -- A Jewish national home -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Towards 1918 : Lenin's revolution, the Ludendorff offensives, and Wilson's Fourteen Points.
520			_a"1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War I David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was transformed, but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it continued to escalate. Two developments in particular--the Russian Revolution and American intervention--had worldwide repercussions. Offering a close examination of the key decisions, David Stevenson considers Germanys campaign of 'unrestricted' submarine warfare, America's declaration of war in response, and Britain's frustration of German strategy by adopting the convoy system, as well as why (paradoxically) the military and political stalemate in Europe persisted. Focusing on the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, on the disastrous spring offensive that plunged the French army into mutiny, on the summer attacks that undermined the moderate Provisional Government in Russia and exposed Italy to national humiliation at Caporetto, and on the British decision for the ill-fated Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 1917 offers a truly international understanding of events. The failed attempts to end the war by negotiation further clarify the underlying forces that prolonged it. David Stevenson also analyzes the global consequences of the year's developments, describing how countries such as Brazil and China joined the belligerents, how Britain offered 'responsible government' to India, and the Allies promised a Jewish national home in Palestine. Blending political and military history, and moving from capital to capital and between the cabinet chamber and the battle front, the book highlights the often tumultuous debates through which leaders entered and escalated the war, and the paradox that continued fighting was justifiable as the shortest road towards regaining peace"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xInfluence.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xDiplomatic history.
650		0	_aNineteen seventeen, A.D.
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