Auf Messers Schneide: Wie das Deutsche Reich den Ersten Weltkrieg verlor
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- UOA28-1841
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- C.H. Beck
- ISBN
- 9783406719691
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This single-authored, 665 pages monograph was researched and written over the course of nearly six years, using extensive archive based research. It deals with German politics and strategy during the First World War. It includes politics, and debates on conduct and purpose of the war on German society as a whole, from 1914 to 1918.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The book deals with German politics and strategy during the First World War. Its main theme are the mechanics of political radicalisation during the war and the interaction between military situation, public opinion and political leadership. German policy was not as clearly committed to all-out conquest as is the general verdict claims, and the German and Central Powers peace advances offered opportunities to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss. The book shows how and why supporters of a radical line could dominate German politics and why the compromisers were unable to offer a viable political alternative.