1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, David Stevenson, c. 2017. 940.3STE

1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, David Stevenson, c. 2017. 940.3STE.

The photography that ame out of WWI was beyond surreal. JRR Tolkien can deny that WWI was the "model" for Lord of the Rings. But.

The author holds the chair for the Stevenson Chair of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Editor or author of seven books on WWI.

This book focuses on a single year of the First World War, January to November, 1917.

1917: one of the best-established benchmark dates in modern history.

1917, WWI:
impact of the Russian Revolution
impact of American intervention

by then, a stalemate that had begun in the autumn of 1914 -- 

that is what has always amazed me -- how learned men in Europe and the UK let this war kill and maim generations of males, year after year after year.

Preface starts with:
Lord Lansdowne and Siegfried Sassoon

Conflict was constructed.

Decision-makers' choices generally emerged from complex and protracted bureaucratic processes.

And then the "story" begins.

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Three Themes

Part I: Atlantic Prologue

• 1: unleashing the U-boats
• 2: enter America
• 3: Britain adopts convoys

Part II: Continental Impasse

• 4: Tsar Nicholas abdicates
• 5: France attacks
• 6: the Kerensky Offensive
• 7: the road to Passchhendaele
• 8: collapse at Caporetto
• 9: peace moves and their rejection

Part III: Global Repercussions

• 10: the spread oof intervention: Greece, Brazil, Siam, China
• 11: responsible government of India
• 12: A Jewish national home

Part IV: Conclusion

• towards 1918: Lenin's Revolution, the Ldendorff Offensives, and Wilson's Fourteen Points

1.5 pages of illustrations, maps and table

2 pages of abbreviations

10 pages of principal personalities

Maps

• 1: Europe in 1917
• 2: The British Isles
• 3: The Eastern Front (Poland, Russia, Austria-Hungary)
• 4. Petrograd
• 5: Flanders
• 6; The Western Front (France, Belgium, Germany, Hindenburg Line, Battle of the Somme, July - Nov, 1916; Flanders; Allied Flanders offensive, 1917)
• 7: The Italian Front
• 8: East and South Asia
• 9. The Middle East (Ottoman Empire, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia, Armenia, Azerbaijan,

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Chapter 12: A Jewish National Home

Pages 326 - 361.

November 2, 1917: British Foreign Secretary approves a statement for communication to the Zionist Federation -- the Balfour Declaration.

The Jewish story: one of the 2th and 21st centuries' most intractable conflicts. Can be divided into five stages:

• the situation before 1914;
• developments in 1914 - 1916;
• the Zionist "breakthrough" in 1917;
• the Cabinet struggle for the declaration;
• the statement's reception and impact.

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