Susan R. Grayzel - First World War, Second Edition

The front cover shows the text, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, at the top. The vintage cover photo shows Indian colonial soldiers being received by men and women on their arrival in Belgium. The name of the book, The First World War: A Brief History with Documents, Second Edition, and the logo of Macmillan Learning are below the photo. The authors name, Susan R. Grayzel, is at the bottom left corner.

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The Bedford Series in History and Culture is designed so that readers can study the past as historians do.

The historians first task is finding the evidence. Documents, letters, memoirs, interviews, pictures, movies, novels, or poems can provide facts and clues. Then the historian questions and compares the sources. There is more to do than in a courtroom, for hearsay evidence is welcome, and the historian is usually looking for answers beyond act and motive. Different views of an event may be as important as a single verdict. How a story is told may yield as much information as what it says.

Along the way the historian seeks help from other historians and perhaps from specialists in other disciplines. Finally, it is time to write, to decide on an interpretation and how to arrange the evidence for readers.

Each book in this series contains an important historical document or group of documents, each document a witness from the past and open to interpretation in different ways. The documents are combined with some element of historical narrative an introduction or a biographical essay, for example that provides students with an analysis of the primary source material and important background information about the world in which it was produced.

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Lynn Hunt

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A hundred years ago, the First World War decisively marked a turning point in European and world history, and over the past thirty-five years and especially during its centenary, scholarship on the war has expanded greatly, deepening our knowledge of its origins, course, and consequences. Initiatives launched during the one-hundredth anniversary of the conflict, such as the new web-based International Encyclopedia of the First World War (encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net), the appearance of the authoritative three-volume Cambridge History of the First World War (2014), and many international conferences focusing on both central players and regions that had been deemed peripheral to the war have all yielded an abundance of exciting new resources. New and revised scholarship on the Ottoman Empire and war in eastern and southeastern Europe, as well as North America, Africa, and Asia, has done much to enhance our view of the complexity and diversity of war experiences. Between 2014 and 2018, studies also appeared that tried to synthesize this literature and speak directly to why the war happened and what it meant, especially in its aftermath.