Examines the backdrop of rivalry among world powers, the events that immediately preceded the first World War, the effects of the war itself, and its long term

Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief

This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how exis

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

This volume brings together leading historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the First World War.