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Article: France, and the Financing of the First World War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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Martin Horn. Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War. Ithaca, N. Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 249. $75.00. ISBN 0-7735-2293-X.
Victory in the First World War was far more than a matter of tactics on the battlefield, of heroism and self-sacrifice, or foolhardiness and stupidity. As Jay Winter and his collaborators have argued, the ability to feed the capital cities and to supply the troops with munitions and nutrition was vitally important. Much recent work has therefore turned to the domestic front and to the mobilization of resources for war, both within each combatant nation and from the rest of the world. In shifting the ...