Rupert Colley - World War One - History in an Hour

WORLD WAR ONE

History in an Hour

Rupert Colley

About History in an Hour Contents Cover Title Page About History in an Hour Introduction Assassination of an Archduke The Schlieffen Plan The Eastern Front Global War The War in Britain The Western Front Gallipoli The Ottoman Empire Verdun Trenches Change at the Top Air and Sea Ireland and Easter Monday Russia and Revolution USA Passchendaele The Spring Offensive, 1918 The Hundred Days Armistice Paris Peace Conference The War to End War? Appendix 1: Key People Appendix 2: Timeline of World War One Copyright Got Another Hour? About the Publisher

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Contents

Cover

Title Page WORLD WAR ONE History in an Hour Rupert Colley

About History in an Hour

Introduction

Assassination of an Archduke

The Schlieffen Plan

The Eastern Front

Global War

The War in Britain

The Western Front

Gallipoli

The Ottoman Empire

Verdun

Trenches

Change at the Top

Air and Sea

Ireland and Easter Monday

Russia and Revolution

USA

Passchendaele

The Spring Offensive, 1918

The Hundred Days

Armistice

Paris Peace Conference

The War to End War?

Appendix 1: Key People

Appendix 2: Timeline of World War One

Copyright

Got Another Hour?

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Introduction Contents Cover Title Page WORLD WAR ONE History in an Hour Rupert Colley About History in an Hour Introduction Assassination of an Archduke The Schlieffen Plan The Eastern Front Global War The War in Britain The Western Front Gallipoli The Ottoman Empire Verdun Trenches Change at the Top Air and Sea Ireland and Easter Monday Russia and Revolution USA Passchendaele The Spring Offensive, 1918 The Hundred Days Armistice Paris Peace Conference The War to End War? Appendix 1: Key People Appendix 2: Timeline of World War One Copyright Got Another Hour? About the Publisher Конец ознакомительного фрагмента. Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес». Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес. Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

The ‘Great War’, as it was originally called, lasted 1,568 days from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918, and was without parallel. It brought to an end four dynasties, ignited revolution, and forged new nations. Modern warfare introduced killing on an unprecedented scale, costing an estimated nine million lives. This was a war of new technology and terrifying new weapons. It was the war that killed the idealistic notion of battle – a war without chivalry, romance or glory – a war that shattered mind and body.

This, the first ‘world’ war, was not just about armies winning and losing battles, but whole populations mobilized for war, at the mercy of the enemy, civilians starved and bombed. It was an industrial war where a country’s whole economic output was geared to war; a war of empires that pulled in combatants from nations across the globe. It was a war of land, air and sea, a war of politics, espionage, and also the Home Front. For the first time in history, this was total war.

And this, in an hour, is World War One.

Assassination of an Archduke Contents Cover Title Page WORLD WAR ONE History in an Hour Rupert Colley About History in an Hour Introduction Assassination of an Archduke The Schlieffen Plan The Eastern Front Global War The War in Britain The Western Front Gallipoli The Ottoman Empire Verdun Trenches Change at the Top Air and Sea Ireland and Easter Monday Russia and Revolution USA Passchendaele The Spring Offensive, 1918 The Hundred Days Armistice Paris Peace Conference The War to End War? Appendix 1: Key People Appendix 2: Timeline of World War One Copyright Got Another Hour? About the Publisher Конец ознакомительного фрагмента. Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес». Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес. Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

It all began with two deaths.

On Sunday, 28 June 1914, the heir to the Austrian–Hungarian (Habsburg) throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the Countess Sophie, paid an official visit to Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, to inspect troops of the Austrian–Hungarian army.

Moments before their death – Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo, 28 June 1914

Bosnia had been a recent and unwilling addition to the Habsburg Empire. Resentful Bosnian Serbs dreamt of freedom and incorporation into the nation of Serbia. Nationalistic groups formed, determined to use violence to strike terror at the heart of the Austrian–Hungarian empire. One such group, the sinisterly named ‘Black Hand’, included among its number a nineteen-year-old named Gavrilo Princip. It was in Sarajevo that Princip would change the world.

Princip and a handful of his Black Hand comrades arrived, each armed with a bomb and, in the event of failure, a vial of cyanide. They joined, at various intervals, the throng of onlookers lined along a 6-km route and waited for the six-car motorcade to come into view. The first two would-be assassins lost their nerve, while the third managed to throw his bomb causing injury to a driver but leaving the Archduke and his wife unharmed. Racked with a sense of failure, Princip trudged to a nearby tavern.