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Last Battle de Peter Hart

Last Battle

Autor Peter Hart
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mar 2018

Recomandăm The Last Battle studenților la istorie, cercetătorilor și pasionaților de strategie militară care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele complexe ale prăbușirii rezistenței germane. Considerăm că lucrarea lui Peter Hart este esențială pentru a demonta mitul conform căruia Marele Război s-a stins de la sine; autorul demonstrează, prin date tactice și mărturii viscerale, că victoria a fost rezultatul unor eforturi ofensive coordonate și extrem de sângeroase. Remarcăm structura narativă care îmbină analiza operațională la nivel înalt cu perspectivele intime ale infanteriștilor de pe frontul de vest. Această abordare umanizează desfășurarea marilor bătălii de la Ypres, Sambre sau Meuse-Argonne, oferind o imagine completă a costului uman necesar pentru a străpunge Linia Hindenburg. Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de Hundred Days de Nick Lloyd, adăugând o profunzime sporită mărturiilor directe de pe ambele părți ale frontului și o analiză mai detaliată a modului în care armata britanică și cea americană și-au sincronizat eforturile în ultimele săptămâni. În contextul operei sale, The Last Battle reprezintă punctul culminant al cercetărilor lui Hart, după volumele dedicate bătăliilor de la Somme sau Gallipoli. Dacă în lucrări precum Footsloggers sau At Close Range autorul s-a concentrat pe experiența individuală a soldatului în Al Doilea Război Mondial, aici el aplică aceeași rigoare documentară pentru a explica finalul primului mare conflict al secolului XX, reușind să mențină un echilibru între precizia academică și fluența narativă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190872984
ISBN-10: 0190872985
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 161 x 241 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a lunilor finale din 1918, depășind clișeul unui armistițiu semnat doar din epuizare politică. Este o lectură obligatorie pentru cei care vor să descopere cum superioritatea tactică aliată și contribuția forțelor americane au forțat capitularea Germaniei. Volumul oferă acces la voci autentice ale epocii, susținute de o secțiune fotografică valoroasă, într-un format accesibil de tip paperback.

Despre autor

Peter Hart este un istoric militar britanic de renume, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina rigoarea arhivelor cu istoria orală. A publicat lucrări fundamentale despre bătăliile de la Somme, Passchendaele și Gallipoli, fiind considerat un expert în experiența de luptă a soldatului de rând. Deși datele menționează o afiliere academică în Canada pentru studii irlandeze, cariera sa este definită de funcția de istoric la Imperial War Museum din Londra, unde a avut acces direct la arhivele ce stau la baza volumelor sale. Stilul său se distinge prin refuzul de a romanța războiul, preferând faptele brute și perspectivele martorilor oculari.

Descriere scurtă

Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918 and the lead-up to November. Because of the fixation on the Great War's opening moves, and the great battles that followed over the course of the next four years, the endgame seems to come as a stunning anticlimax. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the guns simply fell silent. The Last Battle definitively corrects this misperception. As Hart shows, a number of factors precipitated the Armistice. After four years of bloodshed, Germany was nearly bankrupt and there was a growing rift between the military High Command and political leadership. But it also remained a determined combatant, and France and Great Britain had equally been stretched to their limits; Russia had abandoned the conflict in the late winter of 1918. However complex the causes of Germany's ultimate defeat, Allied success on the Western Front, as Hart reveals, tipped the scales-the triumphs at the Fifth Battle of Ypres, the Sambre, the Selle, and the Meuse-Argonne, where American forces made arguably their greatest contribution. The offensives cracked the Hindenburg Line and wore down the German resistance, precipitating collapse. Final victory came at great human cost and involved the combined efforts of millions of men. Using the testimony of a range of participants, from the Doughboys, Tommies, German infantrymen, and French poilus who did the fighting, to those in command during those last days and weeks, Hart brings intimacy and sweep to the events that led to November 11, 1918.

Notă biografică


Peter Hart is Oral Historian of the Imperial War Museum. He is the author of Gallipoli, The Great War, and Fire and Movement, all published by Oxford University Press.

Recenzii

This superbly written history demonstrates conclusively the skill and professionalism of the British Army in 1918.
A superb account of the tactics that finally brought victory on the Western Front. The Last Battle pays just tribute to the allied military achievement of 1918, too often forgotten in our preoccupation with earlier horrors.
Thought provoking, erudite, yet eminently readable and entertaining: Peter Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers
A fantastic book...If you're going to read one book on 1918 for this centenary, there's no doubt that Peter's book is it.
A thoroughly readable, yet authoritative, account of one of the most dramatic periods of 20th Century history, one which deserves to be far better known. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of every serious student of the Great War and I cannot recommend it too strongly.
Peter Hart has a happy knack of blending a high-level of abstraction (the politics, grand strategy and operational) with the personal and minute, and making it work for the reader... The narrative is highly educational and The Last Battle certainly makes for a good read.
Well written, with an exceptional collection of personal narratives, this book provides a fascinating look at the last four months of World War I.
This is an excellent highly readable book that should appeal to all students of military history and a worthy addition to the author's previous titles.
A consistent writer who has the skill of a fine storyteller...Hopefully we will see more from Peter in good time, and if you are wise enough to read The Last Battle, it should lead you to his earlier work. You will not be disappointed.
Arguably the most significant book produced in the centenary year of the Armistice and is a masterfully written and constructed work...a book which is not only more than praiseworthy but is one which will stand as the definitive work on perhaps the most important period of the entire war.
A superb account of the tactics that won the First World War on the Western Front.
Peter Hart, in his commendable book...offers us a first-class analysis as to why the British Army succeeded operationally...One of the best books, among the very large number that the First World War centenary has produced, at describing how soldiers actually think and feel, written by a historian who has a rare intuition for his subject.
At last we have a book that really does these events justice...Hart skilfully navigates the reader through the rival national narratives that each claim credit as architects of the final victory...Hart has delivered a well balanced, enlightening history that enables the reader to make sense of an exciting but potentially confusing chapter of the war.
Hart is an accomplished historian displaying a sound knowledge of the war, its challenges and difficulties, and the manner in which they were overcome. Like his other books, The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front,1918 embraces the human face of war within a largely operational narrative that is balanced and fair in its commentary, and gives credit where credit is due... Once picked up, it will be hard to put down.