TY - BOOK AU - Proctor,Tammy M. TI - World War I: a short history T2 - Wiley short histories SN - 9781118951934 (cloth) AV - D521 .P77 2017 U1 - 940.3 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Hoboken, NJ PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - World War, 1914-1918 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why and how did war break out in summer 1914? -- 1914. Was this war a total war? -- 1915. How and where was the war fought? -- 1916. Who participated in the war and how? -- 1917. How did war affect the societies and people who participated? -- 1918. What circumstances led to the end of the war? -- 1919. How did the peace treaties shape the postwar world? -- How was the war remembered and commemorated after 1919? -- Postscript. World War I in context N2 - "This book provides a short history of World War I. Each chapter answers a central question about the war and its aftermath, and at the conclusion of every section there is a skills exercise for understanding how historians work."--Provided by publisher ER -