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First World War (Smithsonian History of Warfare)

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ISBN-10: 0061142050

ISBN-13: 9780061142055

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson

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Industrial and ironclad power reached its culmination in the war that engulfed Europe. As events would prove, however, the products of the industrial system of the 20th century, including the capacity of the system to transfer vast reserves of manpower from civilian to military employment at short notice, much more greatly favoured strategies of defence than offence. The outcome was a war of attrition and immobile fronts, eventually to be unlocked only when a second wave of industrial innovation yielded means-the tank, the aeroplane-to break the stalemate. This is a complete history of World War I. It is illustrated throughout and incorporates computer-generated cartography to bring the…    
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Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Trevor Wilson is Canada's leading consultant specializing in diversity management and employment equity. He is the President of TWI INc. His firm's clients include some of North America's largest and most progressive employers, including: IBM, Nortel, Ernst and Young, SHL/MCI Systemhouse and Bell Canada. Wison also won a world-wide search to work on a major diversity educational project for one of South Africa's largest employers, South African Brewery (SAB). Before founding TWI Inc. in 1996, Trevor Wilson was the President of Omnibus Consulting. Trevor has held several posts in the Ontario government, advising on issues of multiculturalism, race relations and human rights. He has been…