Ebook {Epub PDF} 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery

 · From the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, World War I went on to encompass the entire globe. This is the premise of Keith Jefffery's A Global History. He picks this one year out of the entire conflict to showcase the participation of France, Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, India, Japan, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and /5(33). Irish professor Keith Jeffery's new book " A Global History" is the second historical look at a single year I've read in the last week or so. (The other is " The Year that Made Hitler" by Peter Ross Range.) By examining a single year, the author is able to cover his material in greater depth than possible with a larger-in-time www.doorway.ru by: Description. So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's magisterial work casts new light on the Great www.doorway.ru:

The title is not entirely deceptive because it was a genuinely global war. Jeffery (British History/Queen's Univ., Belfast; The Secret History of MI6: , ) makes this clear in 12 long, unconnected, richly detailed, and always fascinating chapters, each with a geographic focus. Following chronology, each chapter begins with an. Keith Jeffery's A Global History is a challenge to read. While under pages, it packs every chapter with details about the "war to end all wars.". We see the war from the perspective of the "grunt" in the field and from the a national leaders. Jeffery allows the read to draw the overarching themes of the war. Jeffery (MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, ), of Queen's University-Belfast, shifts the focus of the Great War's pivotal year, , away from the conventional mil.

Keith Jeffery argues in this new historical study that in , the Great War expanded from the bloody fields of Europe and attained global reach, becoming, he believes, a true world war, one that. Description. So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's magisterial work casts new light on the Great War. Keith Jeffery. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, - History - pages. 0 Reviews. So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front.