TY  - BOOK
AU  - Afflerbach,Holger
TI  - The Purpose of the First World War: War Aims and Military Strategies 
SN  - 9783110443486
PB  - De Gruyter Oldenbourg
KW  - History / Military
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Ten million soldiers died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? The Great War is widely seen as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? International specialists analyse the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders and try to explain why the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/ff0df65d-b684-41e4-86f2-d8d884fe516c
ER  -