The First World War: Causes and Campaigns

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will examine the origins and course of the First World War on a thematic basis, concentrating on the military, diplomatic, political and economic aspects of the conflict. Lecture topics will include: the origins of the war and the July crisis; grand strategies in peace and war; the Western Front and trench warfare; the Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns; the Eastern Front; economic mobilisation; the war at sea and in the air.