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The Great Warfare of 1914-1918 was the first mass issue to fully mobilize the sources of industrial capabilities against one another, producing a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, a century after the first weapons of August rang out on the Western front side, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering ramifications of the first truly modern war. Drawing on the experience of front-line military, munitions individuals, politicians, and diplomats, Warfare of Attrition points out for the first time why and how this new kind of issue was fought as it was fought, as well as the way the attitudes and activities of politics and military market leaders, and the inclined responses of the individuals, stamped the 20th hundred years with unprecedented carnage on - and behind - the battlefield.
