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The question
What was the strategy of attrition in the First World War?
Professor William Philpott analyses the war as a coherent whole, showing how the combatants evolved a strategy of attrition that harnessed every resource of the state: a war for survival in which defeat meant national destruction.
Key takeaways
- 01Most WW1 histories are narrative or national; Philpott treats the war as one coherent phenomenon.
- 02Nations evolved a strategy of attrition, harnessing all the resources of the state.
- 03It was a war for survival in which defeat meant national destruction.
From the transcript
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