Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Principal Personalities
Introduction
I. Atlantic Prologue
1: Unleashing the U-Boats
2: Enter America
3: Britain Adopts Convoys
II. Continental Impasse
4: Tsar Nicholas Abdicates
5: France Attacks
6: The Kerensky Offensive
7: The Road to Passchendaele
8: Collapse at Caporetto
9: Peace Moves and their Rejection
III. Global Repercussions
10: The Spread of Intervention: Greece, Brazil, Siam, China
11: Responsible Government for India
12: A Jewish National Home
IV. Conclusion
Towards 1918: Lenin's Revolution, the Ludendorff Offensives, and
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Bibliography
Index
David Stevenson holds the Stevenson Chair of International History
at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he has
twice been Head of Department and teaches and lectures on the
history of international relations. He is the author or editor of
seven books about the origins, course, and consequences of the
First World War. His publications include Armaments and the Coming
of War: Europe, 1904-1914 (OUP, 1996), 1914-1918: the
History of the First World War (Penguin, 2004), With Our Backs to
the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (Penguin, 2011), and
(co-edited with Thomas Mahnken and Joseph Maiolo), Arms Races in
International Politics: from the
Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2016).
`This is an excellent book. Forget the 'on the one hand this', and
'on the other hand that' typical of most book reviews - just go out
and buy yourself a copy.'
John Spencer, Stand To! Magazine
`A welcome addition to the literature that challenges the
all-too-safe and pernicious stereotypes of the history of the First
World War that unfortunately still dominate popular culture.'
Peter Morgan, Military History Magazine
`1917 will be of great interest to those readers who wish to better
understand the broader implications of strategic and diplomatic
decisions during the penultimate year of the conflict. It is in
that field that Stevenson is an unrivalled master and his
comprehensively researched book on 1917 will be welcomed by
many.'
Robert Gerwarth, Literary Review
`1917 is a triumph by a masterly historian, and one of the most
important books to have been published during the centenary years
of the First World War.'
Gary Sheffield, BBC History Magazine
`1917: War, Peace, and Revolution represents a thoughtful synthesis
of relevant secondary literature and published primary and archival
sources. Its narrative is enriched by an invaluable bibliography,
maps and photographs spread throughout the text, and helpful lists
of abbreviations and principal personalities. It is a seminal work
that will engage and inform students, scholars, and general readers
alike.'
Gregory J. Dehler, Michigan War Studies Review
`David Stevenson's book is a cool and original account of the heat
of war in 1917. It surpasses previous studies in terms of its
global range and its archival depth. Here is a history of
decision-making by the sleepwalkers who kept on their murky path
into war three years after its outbreak, and of those few -
including Lenin - who found a way out of the slaughterhouse.
Stevenson's is history as tragedy, with hubris bringing down those
who thought they
could master the destructive forces of the Great War.'
Jay Winter, Yale University
`The European nations had dug themselves by 1917 into a war trap
seemingly without exit - this is the starting point of David
Stevenson's new book. The events of 1917, war, peace, and
revolution, the struggle to get out of the war, get here a thorough
reassessment. The book is an example for the combination of
competent analysis with a gripping narrative and clear
judgement.'
Holger Afflerbach, University of Leeds
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