The Last magnificent war : rare journalistic and eyewitness accounts of World War I
1989, First Edition. Paragon House, New York. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Spine of wrapper sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #473345
ISBN: 1557780307
Physical Description; xiii, 418 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; pt. 1. War's crystal ball: Germany and the next war / Friedrich von Bernhardi ; translated by Allen H. Powles ; Europe: After the war / Ivan Yovitchévitch. pt. 2. The politics of war: Are the German people unanimously for the war? / William English Walling ; The German Constitutional Movement and the war / William Harbutt Dawson ; What Italy gains by remaining neutral / "Ex-Diplomat" ; How the Turks justify their entrance into the war / Jeune-Turc ; War opinion in England: Some contrasts / Albert J. Beveridge ; Mr. Bryan's position / George F. Milton ; Destroying a nation / E.M. Chadwick ; Ambassador Morgenthau's story / Henry Morgenthau ; Dignity demanded / editorial, Union Township dispatch ; We must kill to save / George C. Harvey ; The vice of secret diplomacy / A. Maurice Low ; A short history of the Great War / William L. McPherson. pt. 3. Propaganda: How we advertised America / George Creel ; The press as affected by the war / Oswald Garrison Villard ; How stories of atrocities are invented / staff, The American review of reviews ; Thrilling stories of the world's greatest war : sinking of the Lusitania and other attrocities / Thomas H. Russell. pt. 4. Recruitment and camp life: English conscription and our Civil War draft / staff, The American review of reviews ; Making officers in our new army / William Menkel ; Training Colored officers / Lucy France Pierce. pt. 5. Navies at war: Newspaper editorials, 8 and 9 May 1915 / New York herald, New York world, Baltimore sun, St. Louis republic, Richmond (Virginia) times dispatch, Memphis commercial appeal ; German opinion on the case of the Lusitania / editorial, Franfürter Zeitung ; Germany's submarines / H.T. Wade ; The greatest naval battle in history / Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish ; Solving the problem of the submarine / Burton J. Hendrick
pt. 6. War by the participants: One man's war : the diary of a Leatherneck . J.E. Rendinell and George Pattulo ; Negro combat troops in the World War : the story of the 371st Infanty / Chester D. Heywood ; A poet of the air : letters written in the Aviation Service / Jack Wright ; Fighting the Flying Circus / Edward V. Rickenbacker ; Revolt in the desert / T.E. Lawrence ; With the tanks / Harold A. Littledale. pt. 7. Witnesses to war: As witnessed in Germany : German system seen in camp, hospital and prison / Albert J. Beveridge ; Kings, queens and pawns / Mary Roberts Rinehart. pt. 8. Espionage: fighting Germany;'s spies : the first glimpse of the ship bombs / French Strother ; German codes and ciphers / French Strother. pt. 9. The birth of modern communism: The new Russia / Charles Johnston ; The reawakening of Russia / staff, The American review of reviews ; Russia in the throes of re-birth / Isaac Don Levine ; What's next in Russia? / Roger Lewis ; Thraveling through Siberian chaos / Richard Orland Atkinson. pt. 10. Religion and the war: The German Catholic viewpoint / Heinrich Schrörs ; The Jewish flight from Palestine to Egypt / Martha L. Root ; The massacred Armenians / Filippo Meda. Conclusion: The Armistice: Combed out / F.A. Voigt ; The armistice negotiations ; The war cost at a glance / Charles F. Horne
Epilogue. Subjects; 1914-1918. Personal narratives. Sources. World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives. World War, 1914-1918 Sources.
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