| Description |
18 sound discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks. |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses.
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| Performer |
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, lecturer. |
| Note |
In three containers (23 cm.). |
| Summary |
University of Tennessee professor Vejas Liulevicius delivers lectures for a course on the First World War, which was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved. It became the first "total war", a conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to victory at any price. The cost was ghastly, and the world would never be the same, as the legacy of the Great War continues to reverberate even today. |
| Contents |
lecture 1. The century's initial catastrophe -- lecture 2. Europe in 1914 -- lecture 3. Towards crisis in politics and culture -- lecture 4. Causes of the war and the July crisis, 1914 -- lecture 5. The August madness -- lecture 6. The failed gambles : war plans break down -- lecture 7. The western front experience -- lecture 8. Life and death in the trenches -- lecture 9. The great battles of attrition -- lecture 10. The eastern front experience -- lecture 11. The southern fronts -- lecture 12. War aims and occupations -- lecture 13. Soldiers as victims -- lecture 14. Storm troopers and future dictators -- lecture 15. The total war of technology -- lecture 16. Air war -- lecture 17. War at sea -- lecture 18. The global reach of the war -- lecture 19. The war state -- lecture 20. Propaganda war -- lecture 21. Endurance and stress on the home front -- lecture 22. Dissent and its limits -- lecture 23. Remobilization in 1916-1917 -- lecture 24. Armenian massacres : tipping into genocide -- lecture 25. Strains of war : Socialists and Nationalists -- lecture 26. Russian revolutions -- lecture 27. America's entry into the war -- lecture 28. America at war: over there and over here -- lecture 29. 1918: the German Empire's last gamble -- lecture 30. The war's end: emotions of the Armistice -- lecture 31. Toppled thrones: the collapse of empires -- lecture 32. The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement -- lecture 33. Aftershocks: Reds, Whites, and Nationalists -- lecture 34. Monuments, memory, and myths -- lecture 35. The rise of the mass dictatorships -- lecture 36. Legacies of the Great War. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Sounde recordings.
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| Local Subject |
BOOKS ON COMPACT DISC.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
159803152X |
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9781598031522 |
| Music No. |
8210 Teaching Co. |
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