دانلود کتاب Collision of Empires: Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945

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Contents
Introduction
Part One. The Great War With France (1793-1945)
Outline: 1793-1815
1 Britain at War with France
I. Causes or Occasions
II. The Occasion of War
III. The Ideology of the War
IV. The Objectives of the War in the 1790s
V. The War against Napoleon
VI. Unofficial War Aims
2 The Industrial Revolution at War
L Assessing Britain\'s Wartime Economy
IL Population and Wealth: Some International Comparisons
Ill. The Evidence of Tax Statistics
IV. Industrialization and Boom
V. Mobilizing National Resources
VI. The Contribution of Technology
VII. The Contribution of Industrial Production
VIIL International Comparisons: External Trade
IX. A Key Resource: Money
X. The Paper System
3 Britain at War with Europe
I. The European Response to British Policy
II. The Case for Action against Britain
III. The Armed Neutrality of 1800
IV. Copenhagen, 1807
V. The Continental System
VI. From Isolation to Triumph
4 Wellington’s War
I. The Elusive Strategic Pattern
IL The Problem of Strategic Control
Ill. Command of the Sea
IV. The British Army: A Profession of Amateurs
V. Military-Naval Cooperation
VI. The Continental Commitment
VII. The Duke of Wellington
VIIL Wellington\'s System: Logistics and Repression
IX. Wellington\'s Logistics and the Logic of Success
5 Venetian Oligarchy or Vacuum
I. The British Political System during the French Wars
IL Government and Party in the 1800s
IIL The Structure of Public Opinion
IV. George III as National Symbol
V. Alternative Symbols
VI. The War and the Established Order
VII. The War and National Consensus
Part Two. The First World War (1914-1918)
Outline: 1914-1918
6 Britain’s Entry into the First World War: A Study in Motives
I. Problems of Agenda
IL Views from the Other Side
III. Voices of the People
IV. The Standard Excuses: Belgium and the Entente
V’ Parallel Cases: Turkey
VI. Parallel Cases: Italy
VII. Parallel Cases: Greece
VIII. Parallel Cases: Portugal
IX. Last Parallel Case: The United States
X. The British Case
XL Psychological Crisis and the Decision for War
7 The War against Militarism and Imperialism
L The War against Prussianism
//. The New Eastern Question
Ill. The Cause of the Small Nationalities
IV. Democracy versus Autocracy
8 Towards the Economics of Total War
I. The Scale of the War
IL The Failure of Forward Planning
III. The Evolution of the British War Economy
IV. Britain and the Allies
V. Foreign Parallels: Russia and Austria-Hungary
VI. The German War Economy
9 The War of the Generals
/. Some Images of the Great War
II. New Ideas and the Old Guard
Ill. Careers Open to Talent
IV. Left-Overs from Queen Victoria\'s Little Wars: Kitchener and Hamilton
V. Sir John French
VI. The New Professionalism
VII. Sir Douglas Haig
VIII. The New Warfare of the Industrial Era
IX. Learning the Lessons of War
X. The Military Mind Confronts Reality
10 Armageddon in the Machine Age
I. Improved Ways of Killing
IL The Machine Gun
Ill. Gas
IV. The Tank
V. The Image and Achievements of Air Power
VI. The Birth of Bombing
VIL Aeroplanes and the War of the Trenches
VIII. The Battle for Air Supremacy
X. The Mind and the Machine
11 The War of the Transitional Dictatorships
I. The Instability of the Old Order
IL Opposition to War Governments
Ill. The Case of Austria-Hungary
IV. Civil and Military Rule in Germany and Austria-Hungary
V. Civil and Military Rule in the West
VI. Civil and Military Relations in Britain
VII. National Leadership
VIII. Lloyd George and the Generals
IX. The Source of Political Authority
Part Three. The Second World War (1939-1945)
Outline: 1939-1945
12 Right against Right
/. Cross-Currents
II. The Question of Fascism and Anti-Fascism
IIL Isolated Ideologues
IV. Right against Right in Britain
V. The Myth of the Master Race - Anglo-Saxon Version
VI. The American Angle
13 The War of the Super-economies
I. Learning from the Past
//. The Blitzkrieg Economy in Germany
III. Planning the German War Economy
IV. The Pillage of Europe
V. The Japanese War Economy
VI. The British War Economy
VII. Elements of Unbalance
VIII. The US.A. as Arsenal of Democracy
IX. Lend-Lease
14 The War of Technology
II. German Science at War
III. German Science and Nazi Organization
IV. Technology and the Japanese War Effort
V. Design and Engineering in Britain
VI. The British Boffin at War
15 The Strategy of Long Views and Wide Margins
I. Axis Underestimates
IL Strategy as Fantasy: The Italian Case
Ill. The Strategy of Wishful Thinking:
Britain ana the Mediterranean
IV. Sclerosis of the System
16 The Correct Use of Air Power
I. Images of War in the Air Age
IL The Air Weapon in Ground Warfare
IIL The Battle of Britain and the Air Ministry
V. The Empire Strikes Back
VI. The New War of Attrition
VII. The Cost to Germany
VHL The Legacy of Sir Douglas Haig
17 The War of the Plebiscitary Dictatorships
I. Social Cohesion in the Third Reich: Supervision
IL Social Cohesion in the Third Reich: Seduction
III. Wartime Leadership
IV. Winston Churchill: His Finest Hour
V. Churchill as War Leader
VI. Civil and Military in Britain
VII. Civil and Military in Germany and Japan
Envoi
Index