World War I: The "Great War" Part 1 of 3, The Great Courses, Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook Only

by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

From August 1914 to November 1918, an unprecedented catastrophe gripped the world that continues to this time. It was the first conflict in which entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, investing their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory at any price. These three books cover this conflict and the aftermath.

Genres: History, Military Fiction, Audiobook, World War I

Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences
Biography
Professor Liulevicius specializes in modern German history, with a particular focus on German relations with Eastern Europe. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Peace, and Revolution from 1994-95. He has taught at the University of Tennessee since 1995. From 2008 to 2021, he served as the director of the Center for the Study of War and Society.

Reviews

[Brian Baughman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I listened to the entire class on The Great Courses via Audible. This class done a few years before Covid-19. At the end of the course the professor talked about the Spanish Flu and how the world wouldn't be prepared for the next pandemic, and how it really only goes away when it works its way through the population...

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good info on the topic

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent overview