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Table of Content
Danksagung
VII
List of Abbreviations
IX
Introduction
Holger Afflerbach
What Was the Great War about? War Aims, Military Strategies and
Political Justifications during the First World War
3
Hew Strachan
Military Operations and National Policies, 1914-1918
7
War Aims and Strategies of the Entente Powers of 1914
Georges-Henri Soutou
French War Aims and Strategy
29
Keith Jeffery
British Strategy and War Aims in the First World War
45
Boris Kolonitskii
War as Legitimisation of Revolution, Revolution as Justification of War.
Political Mobilisations in Russia, 1914-1917
61
Dusan T. Batakovic
Serbian War Aims and Military Strategy, 1914-1918
79
War Aims and Strategies of the Central Powers of 1914
Roger Chickering
Strategy, Politics, and the Quest for a Negotiated Peace.
The German Case, 1914-1918
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Marvin Benjamin Fried,
"A Live and Death Question": Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the
First World War
117
Reflection
Lothar Hobelt
Mourir pour Liege? World War I War Aims in a Long-Term Perspective .... 143
War Aims and Strategies of Powers Entering the Conflict
Later than August 1914
Mesut Uyar
Ottoman Strategy and War Aims during the First World War
163
John Gooch
"An Act of Madness"? Italy's War Aims and Strategy, 1915-1918
187
Klaus Schwabe
President Wilson and the War Aims of the United States
209
Conclusion
Holger Afflerbach
"... eine Internationale der Kriegsverscharfung und der Kriegsverlangerung ..." War Aims and the Chances for a Compromise Peace during
the First World War
237
List of Authors
255