First World War Books

Book SynopsisThe vast military campaigns in Africa during World War I were among the most ambitious of the Great War. Many histories, however, have regarded these campaigns as side-shows to the war on the Western Front. World War One in Africa looks afresh at the impact of the strategy of the German and Allied campaigns, and at the great rivalry between General Jan Christian Smuts, who took on the German forces in East Africa, and General Lettow-Vorbeck, celebrated as the only German general to occupy British territory and whose troops finished the war undefeated. Using primary material from British and South African archives, this book is a detailed study of the giants of the campaign, and the battles which would shape the outcome of the Great War as well as the future of the African continent and the British Empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Position on the eve of war Chapter 2: To war, 1914 Chapter 3: The outbreak of war: Southern Africa, 1914 Chapter 4: German South West Africa, Angola and Southern Africa - 1915 Chapter 5: War on the waters and in the air - 1915-1917 Chapter 6: East Africa 1915-1917 Chapter 7: Personal, personnel and materiel Chapter 8: Last days - 1918 Chapter 9: Behind the scenes - 1915-1918 Chapter 10: The war in London - 1915-1917 Chapter 11: All for what? Chapter 12: Conclusions Notes Bibliography Forces Index Person Index Place Index General Index

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Book SynopsisIRELAND'S FORGOTTEN LEGACYIn 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. An award-winning collection of veterans' stories as told by the families, with military records, surviving documents and letters.

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Book Synopsis During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent that resists containment within a simple historical narrative. While antisemitism and Jewish disillusionment have dominated many previous studies of the topic, this collection aims to recapture the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life in the experiences of soldiers and civilians alike during the First World War. Here, scholars from multiple disciplines explore rare sources and employ innovative methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, cultural legacies of the war, and memory politics.Trade Review “All in all, the collection succeeds in its primary aim, to present fresh and innovative perspectives on (mainly) German Jewish wartime experiences and introduce newly discovered sources and analytical tools that highlight their diversity, in the editors’ words, ‘along gender, political, geographic, social, and subjective lines’. Perhaps even more importantly, as Derek Penslar puts it in his thoughtful afterword, it represents an important contribution towards a ‘unified field of modern German and Jewish history’.” • Journal of Austrian Studies “By exploring diverse narratives in various forms, including literature and film, these twelve excellent essays add nuance and complexity to the mainstream narrative of the Jewish Great War experience. The primary goal of this collection is to go beyond the Judenzählung of 1916, the ‘Jewish count’ of war contribution, and to challenge the belief that anti-Semitism was the main ordeal dealt with among central European Jews.” • First World War Studies “The editors are to be commended for going beyond traditional historical concerns to include literature, film and even psychology…[This volume]is an important collection of essays which mostly deal with German Jews in the First World War. It … does a masterful job at reminding us that German Jews were indeed part of the German nation, however defined, before the Nazis.” • Social History “This interdisciplinary collection of essays is a penetrating and deeply researched analysis of how the horrors of World War I shaped, in contradictory and surprising ways, Jewish life. It is an impressive achievement that will stand alongside some of the best scholarship in the field.” • Eugene M. Avrutin, University of Illinois “Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion is truly at the forefront of research in the field. It approaches its subject in an original, sophisticated and intellectually riveting manner. Coherent and convincing throughout, the book manages to surprise and engage, all the while expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a Jew during World War I.” • Ilse Josepha Lazaroms, Central European University “This extraordinary volume advances the historiography of German-speaking Jews in World War I to a higher level, pushing past the now dated debates about Jewish war service and assimilation that dominated the field for decades. A rich compilation of cutting-edge research, Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity of Jewish war experiences and postwar memories. Its authors interrogate Jewish difference through a range of compelling, interdisciplinary approaches and comparative frameworks, unearthing new material and reexamining familiar sources from fresh perspectives. An indispensable collection for readers interested in trauma and its linkages with war, gender, Jewishness, and media and for scholars of Jewish history, German studies, and war and society in the twentieth century.” • Paul Lerner, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Jason Crouthamel, Michael Geheran, Tim Grady, and Julia Barbara Köhne PART I: AT THE MARGINS: MINORITIES AND THE MILITARY Chapter 1. Hopes and Disappointments: German and French Jews during the Wars of 1870/71 and 1914–1918 Christine G. Krüger Chapter 2. Habsburg Jews and the Imperial Army before and during the First World War Tamara Scheer Chapter 3. The ‘Stepchildren’ of the Kaiserreich: Alsatians in the German Army during the First World War Devlin M. Scofield PART II: RELATIONS: CONTESTED IDENTITIES DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR Chapter 4. Rethinking Jewish Front Experiences Michael Geheran Chapter 5. "Being German" and "Being Jewish" during the First World War: An Ambivalent Transnational Relationship? Sarah Panter Chapter 6. In the Shadow of Antisemitism: Jewish Women and the German Home Front during the First World War Andrea A. Sinn Chapter 7. The Social Engagement of Jewish Women in Berlin during the First World War Sabine Hank Chapter 8. “My Comrades Are for the Most Part On My Side”: Comradeship Between Non-Jewish and German Jewish Front Soldiers in the First World War Jason Crouthamel PART III: REPRESENTATION: THE CULTURE OF WAR Chapter 9. Blind Spots and Jewish Heroines: Refashioning the Galician War Experience in 1920s Hollywood and Berlin Philipp Stiasny Chapter 10. Agnon on the Home Front in In Mr Lublin’s Store: Hebrew Fiction of the First World War Glenda Abramson PART IV: CONTESTED MEMORIES: WORKING THROUGH THE LEGACIES OF WAR Chapter 11. Paper Psyches: On the Psychography of the Front Soldier According to Paul Plaut Julia Barbara Köhne Chapter 12. Narrative Negotiations: Interpreting the Cultural Position of Jews in National(social)ist War Narratives from 1914 to 1945 Florian Brückner Afterword: German Jewry and the First World War: Beyond Polemic and Apologetic Derek Jonathan Penslar Index

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Book Synopsis The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.Trade Review “Taken together this set of essays provides an exciting overview of current work in the field and sets an agenda for further research on this crucial period in Central and East Central European history. This is a valuable, impressive collection, and the editors must be complimented on their achievement.” • German History “As a whole, this book succeeds in complicating our views of the postimperial transition… This book gives us an able starting point on which to build new scholarship and continue conversations with one another that enliven and enrich our understanding of a complicated and difficult past.” • H-Net (Habsburg) “Overall, this is an excellent text with a lot of interesting and novel observations on the experiences of people in the successor states of the AustroHungarian Empire. Our tendency in the past has been to wall off our studies along contemporary national boundaries, and the editors of this book have illustrated how these new nation- states both related to one another and struggled to create independent identities. Scholars of the late years of the empire and the transitions aft er its dissolution will undoubtedly find it a valuable resource, and I would not limit my recommendation just to historians. Anyone who studies Central European culture in the first half of the twentieth century may find something useful in this book.” • Journal of Austrian Studies “Recently, another research trend can be observed: a revitalization of regional history. This has also brought new perspectives to the Habsburg monarchy and its neighbours and its successor states…This volume takes up these research trends... and makes an important contribution. The title "Embers of the Empire" can be taken literally. From the embers of empires, the successor states were able to strike new political sparks; under the surface of the new democratic orders, however, conflicts continue to swell… The study of the common history of empires and nation states, not least in their regional shades, offers many points of reference for further research.” • Bohemia
 “In his afterword, Pieter Judson reminds us of the still dominant ideal of nations and nation states especially after 1918. As this ambitious and, all in all, very successful volume shows, however, new approaches in the study of history will offer new perspectives on the intricate afterlife of the Habsburg Empire.” • Hungarian Historical Review “The major strengths of the work are informed, updated, and ambitious pieces that attempt to span the range of the empire in the style of the ‘Kronprinzenwerk’. Embers of Empire thus represents a sound start for further research, especially on the biographies of less well-known personalities that appeared on the stage in the wobbly world of the post-bellum states. For these reasons, it should find its place in every Habsburg and Central European historian’s shelf.” • Vicko Marelić in Contemporary Austrian Studies “Embers of Empire is a highly impressive, thoroughly researched, and very well-written collection that draws on sources from multiple archives across all of the languages of the successor states. It will be of great interest to historians of Europe and Habsburg scholars, as well as specialists focusing on Eastern Europe and the Balkans.” • Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans “The brilliant and well-informed essays in this collection insightfully deal with continuities between the late Habsburg and post-Habsburg eras. It exemplifies the recent stream of scholarship that has significantly revised the history of the Habsburg Empire and its legacies.” • Rudolf Kučera, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of SciencesTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Claire Morelon PART I: PERMANENCE AND REVOLUTION: NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE TRANSITION TO THE SUCCESSOR STATES Chapter 1. Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions: Local Societies and Nationalizing States in East Central Europe Gábor Egry Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague Claire Morelon Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Biliński between Imperial Austria and New Poland Iryna Vushko Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873–1928 Marta Filipová PART II: THE HABSBURG ARMY'S FINAL BATTLES Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States Richard Bassett Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K.(u.) K. Officers of Romanian Nationality Before and after the Great War Irina Marin Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918–1929 John Paul Newman PART III: CHURCH, DYNASTY, ARISTOCRACY: THE POST-WAR FATE OF IMPERIAL PILLARS Chapter 8. “All the German Princes Driven Out!”: The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic Michael Carter-Sinclair Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past?: Central European Nobles during and after the First World War Konstantinos Raptis Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint―or Cipher?: The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I Christopher Brennan PART IV: HISTORY, MEMORY, MENTALITÉ: PROCESSING THE EMPIRE'S PASSING Chapter 11. “What Did They Die For?”: War Remembrance in Austria in the Transition from Empire to Nation State Christoph Mick Chapter 12. “The First Victim of the First World War”: Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory Paul Miller Afterword Pieter M. Judson Index

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Book Synopsis Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria. Through analysis of diaries and other source material, it reconstructs the rhythms of daily life within an often bleak and hostile environment, in the face of a gradually disintegrating social fabric.Trade Review “Vahé Tachjian has written a thoughtful, nuanced, and powerful study of survival centring on the lives of two Armenian diarists from the period: the priest Der Nerses Tavukjian and Krikor Bogharian, both from Aintab (present-day Gaziantep). Their diaries are by no means unique among the plethora of materials contemporary Armenian survivors have written, but they are particularly devastating in their emotional honesty as the authors experienced and survived genocide.” • War in History “Tachjian’s greatest contribution to the study of the Armenian Genocide lies in his approach to diaries and memoirs. He demonstrates that by dissecting, analyzing, and contextualizing them historians can extract vital information about different facets of the genocide. Moreover, in introducing microhistory to the analysis of survivors’ diaries in Armenian, he has opened the door to new interpretations of such texts, many of which have not yet been analyzed or translated from Armenian into English.” • International Journal of Middle East Studies “Vahé Tachjian has written a thoughtful, nuanced and powerful study of survival.” • European History Quarterly “Vahe Tachjian and his translator have done a great service to the recovery of the historical experience of the Armenian Genocide. The immediacy of the diaries of survivors testifies to the extraordinary suffering not only of a people displaced and destroyed but also of individuals who managed to live through and record their horrendous journey into the desert. As a gifted, sensitive, and analytical scholar, Tachjian sets the events in the larger context of Ottoman policy and the Arab world and probes the sources of strength—like family and local community ties—that Armenians deployed in their desperation. These diaries preserve the ‘authenticity of the moment,’ the deep texture of place and time, often lost in subsequent accounts. For historians, general readers, and all those interested in the possibilities of human cruelty, the depths of human suffering, and the potential of human resilience, this book is a treasure.” • Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Political Science, The University of Michigan “This is a meticulously researched and thoughtfully articulated work. It sheds new light on the situation in the Middle East, especially Syria, during World War I, and adds to our understanding of the progressive dehumanization of genocide victims.” • Vahram Shemmassian, California State University, NorthridgeTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Diarist, his Environment, and the Reasons for Keeping a Diary Chapter 2. The Deportees in the Region of Bilad al-Sham: A Race Against Time at Breakneck Speed Chapter 3. The Circle of Salvation in Extreme Conditions: Money-Food-Connections Chapter 4. Descriptions of the Deportees’ Decline: The Deaths of Shoghagat, Hagop, Krikor, Diruhi, and Many Others Chapter 5. From Forced Islamization to Emancipation: Two Historical Episodes and their Contradictions Afterword Glossary Index

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Book Synopsis Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained social ties and placed in sharp relief the most mundane aspects of daily life, such as when, what, and with whom to eat. This study reconstructs the experience of the Bohemian working class during the Great War through explorations of four basic spheres—food, labor, gender, and protest—that comprise a fascinating case study in early twentieth-century social history.Trade Review “This is a challenging and thoughtful work, one that rewards reading and study.” • East Central Europe “This publication is to be welcomed as a valuable contribution to the social history of Central European workers during World War I. This intensification of the pressures on wage-workers in the cities and large factories of wartime Bohemia, the most industrially advanced region of the Habsburg Empire, is vividly analysed, and the writer’s theses may stimulate some rethinking of both World War I’s challenges to organised labour and to the evolution of regimes of labour control in the early twentieth century.” • Labour History “Rudolf Kučera’s work is a remarkable step toward a more complete assessment of the war effort in Central Europe, and he presents a well-written and multifaceted social history of the Bohemian Lands during World War I… This compelling social history (in the best sense of the term) of the Bohemian Lands during World War I is a must-read on the subject and opens the field for a broader reassessment of life in the late Habsburg Empire.” • Austrian History Yearbook “Among the numerous publications on the occasion of the centenary of the First World War Rudolf Kučera’s book stands out as being particularly interesting…[It is] very well written…and offers a very welcome contribution to the current debate on theory in Czech historiography. He presents new topics and introduces new concepts.” • Bohemia “This book is a major achievement. It is the first book in English on the First World War in the Bohemian lands, and it will set the standard for all future scholarship in this field.” • Journal of Modern History “His book offers an exciting, if provisional, rethinking of wartime labor history in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” • American Historical Review “The book offers a new way to look at the working class, mainly from the perspective of consumption, gender relations, and the worker’s place in the production process, while science and rationalization are largely discussed outside the frameworks of theory and scarcity, showing how it related to the war economy’s needs and affected the workers subjected to it. Eventually, Kučera excellently demonstrates how the war radically changed the Bohemian working class, thereby providing a solid background for the understanding of inter-war Czechoslovak working-class politics.” • European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire “…the insightful vision of urban industrial workers’ experience and the powerful argumentation offered by Kuĉera’s book make it necessary reading for anyone interested in the economic, social, and political changes on the Austro-Hungarian home front during World War I.” • History: Reviews of New Books “The book is a strong and much needed intervention into the historiography on the home front of the First World War in the Habsburg Empire and in East-Central Europe more broadly…a significant contribution to the historiography of the working class in the Bohemian lands… and the discussion of gender…Given its significant contributions, [Kucera’s} book is an essential read for anyone interested in the social history of the war, the history of the working classes in Central Europe, and the war’s effects on gender relations.” • Gender and Research “This is an important contribution to our understanding of working-class life in central Europe during the First World War. Kučera convincingly shows that class mattered, if not in the way that actors at the time believed.” • Jakub Beneš, University College, Oxford “Rationed Life draws upon an impressive array of primary sources while displaying a truly remarkable familiarity with a wide range of secondary sources published in Czech, German, and English. This is an original and thought-provoking book that challenges us to rethink the experience of World War I in Bohemia, and beyond.” • Chad Bryant, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Rationed Satiety: The Politics of Food Chapter 2. Rationed Fatigue: The Politics of Work Chapter 3. Rationed Manliness: The Politics of Gender Chapter 4. Rationed Anger: The Politics of Protest Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish rights. Yet Jews also suffered as refugees and deportees, at times catastrophically. And in the aftermath of the war, the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Russian and Ottoman Empires with a system of nation-states confronted Jews with a new set of challenges. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities participated in and were changed by the Great War, focusing on the dramatic circumstances they faced in Europe, North America, and the Middle East during and after the conflict.Trade Review “The book is a powerful statement of the transformations that affected Jews, particularly the post-war settlement… it is highly recommended to anyone interested in Jewish history, to anyone interested in the war, and to those who study early twentieth century history in the areas covered.” • European Review of History “Any student or scholar of World War I, Jewish history, and twentieth-century nationalism will appreciate this impressive edited volume.” • European History Quarterly “This volume fills a crucial research gap in modern Jewish history, contains excellent essays by senior and junior scholars, and makes a convincing case why the ‘Great War’ marked a crucial turning point in modern Jewish history on both sides of the Atlantic.” • Tobias Brinkmann, The Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of Contents Figures Tables Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: On the Significance of World War I and the Jews Jonathan Karp and Marsha L. Rozenblit PART I: OVERVIEWS Chapter 1. World War I and its Impact on the Problem of Security in Jewish History David Engel Chapter 2. The European Jewish World 1914-1919: What Changed? Marsha Rozenblit Chapter 3. Jewish Diplomacy and the Politics of War and Peace Carole Fink PART II: LOCAL STUDIES Chapter 4. Bravery in the Borderlands, Martyrs on the Margins: Jewish War Heroes and World War I Narratives in France, 1914-1940 Erin Corber Chapter 5. The Budapest Jewish Community’s Galician October Rebekah Klein-Pejšová Chapter 6. Confronting the Bacterial Enemy: Public Health, Philanthropy, and Jewish Responses to Typhus in Poland, 1914-1921 Daniel Rosenthal Chapter 7. The Union of Jewish Soldiers under Soviet Rule Mihály Kálmán Chapter 8. Global Conflict, Local Politics: The Jews of Salonica and World War I Paris Papamichos Chronakis Chapter 9. Recounting the Past, Shaping the Future: Ladino Literary Representations of World War I Devi Mays Chapter 10. Women and the War: The Social and Economic Impact of World War I on Jewish Women in the Traditional Holy Cities of Palestine Michal Ben Ya’akov Chapter 11. Baghdadi Jews in the Ottoman Military during World War I Reeva Spector Simon Chapter 12. Unintentional Pluralists: Military Policy, Jewish Servicemen, and the Development of Tri-Faith America during World War I Jessica Cooperman Chapter 13. American Yiddish Socialists at the Wartime Crossroads: Patriotism and Nationalism versus Proletarian Internationalism Gennady Estraikh Chapter 14. Louis Marshall during World War I: Change and Continuity in Jewish Culture and Politics M.M. Silver Index

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Book Synopsis From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.Trade Review “Each chapter offers a fresh account of complex national commemorative cultures and historiography and is packed with arresting insights. Coming after the wave of centenary commemorations, this volume is an essential addition to the literature and will stimulate further research on World War I.” • William Mulligan, University College Dublin “The aim of this volume is as ambitious as it is commendable: to describe and analyze collective memories and historiographies of the Great War in a variety of geographical contexts. Even for scholars who have long studied World War I, it offers fascinating material” • Gerhard Hirschfeld, University of Stuttgart “Writing the Great War covers the historiography of the war both in depth and in breadth. The contributors are leading scholars who provide enlightening insights into politics, memory, and historiography. Specialists will find much to spark their interests and students will find it a useful guide to a complex field.” • Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War ITable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding World War I: One Hundred Years of Historiographical Debate and Worldwide Commemoration Christoph Cornelißen and Arndt Weinrich Chapter 1. (Hi-)stories and Memories of the Great War in France. 1914–2018 Nicolas Offenstadt Chapter 2. Histories and Memories: Recounting the Great War in Belgium, 1914–2014 Bruno Benvindo and Benoît Majerus Chapter 3. British and Commonwealth Historiography of World War I Jay Winter Chapter 4. Of Expectations and Aspirations: South Asian Perspectives on World War I, the World, and the Subcontinent Margret Frenz Chapter 5. German Historiography on World War I, 1914–2019 Christoph Cornelißen and Arndt Weinrich Chapter 6. Austrian Historiography and Perspectives on the First World War: The Long Shadow of the “Just War” 1914–2018 Oliver Rathkolb Chapter 7. Russia in World War One: The Politics of Memory and Historiography Boris Kolonitskii Chapter 8. The Invention of Yugoslav Identity: Serbian and South Slav Historiographies on World War I, 1918–2018 Stanislav Sretenović Chapter 9. A Seminal “Anti-Catastrophe”? Historiography on the First World War in Poland Piotr Szlanta Chapter 10. A Historiographical Turn: Evolving Interpretations of Japan during World War I Jan Schmidt and Naoko Shimazu Chapter 11. Coming to Terms with the Imperial Legacy and the Violence of War: Turkish Historiography of WWI between Autarchy and a Plurality of Voices Alexandre Toumarkine Chapter 12. Italian Memory and Historiography and the First World War Angelo Ventrone Chapter 13. Finding a Place for the First World War in American History Jennifer D. Keene Index

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Book Synopsis Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between Empire and Continent demonstrates, British foreign policy was in fact driven by a nexus of intra-British, continental and imperial motivations. Recreating the often heated public sphere of London at the turn of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking study carefully tracks the alliances, conflicts, and political maneuvering from which British foreign and security policy were born.Trade Review “Supported by a wealth of research and an extensive command of the historical literature on the subject, the book is important for academic libraries focusing on modern British history, diplomatic history, and the history of WW I…Highly recommended.” • Choice “Between Empire and Continent takes this reviewer’s understanding of events to an entirely different level and will no doubt become a key text. This is a book that offers much… It is a highly sophisticated piece of writing, and another close read of this fascinating study will no doubt produce many more important insights.” • American Historical Review “Likely to invigorate the revisionist interpretation of British foreign policy before 1914… The focus suggested by the title… is where future research should find a fruitful starting point.” • The Journal of Modern History “If Ranke actually held fast to his famous concept of the primacy of foreign policy, he might not have liked Rose's conclusions, but surely he would have approved the scholarship.” • The International History Review “The quality of this research is outstanding.” • William Mulligan, University of Dublin “Meticulously researched and masterfully argued… Rose skillfully demonstrates that, driven by domestic concerns and by the strategic challenge posed primarily by France and Russia, rather than Germany, Britain embarked on a radical overhaul of its foreign affairs.” • Thomas Weber, University of AberdeenTable of Contents List of Tables and Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword by Sir Christopher Clark Introduction Chapter 1. The Public Sphere in Edwardian London Chapter 2. The Policy of Drift?: Balance of Power, Concert of Europe, or Political Power Blocs? Chapter 3. Safety First: The Politics of Defence and the Realities behind Diplomacy Chapter 4. Imperial Defence or Continental Commitment? Chapter 5. Foreign Policy under Lansdowne and Balfour Chapter 6. The Myth of Continuity: Foreign Policy under Edward Grey Chapter 7. The Committee of Four: The German Peril Revisited Chapter 8. At the Cost of Stability: The Anglo-Russian Convention and its European Implications Chapter 9. ‘More Russian than the Russians’? British Balkan Diplomacy and the Annexation of Bosnia 1908/9
 Conclusion and Perspectives: The Triad of British Foreign Politics Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of any debate on their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself. It combines methods from history, gender studies, and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged these men’s senses of masculinity, and to which the resulting dynamics influenced their attitudes and loyalties.Trade Review “Hutečka’s Men Under Fire is a pathbreaking book that greatly increases our understanding of Habsburg soldiers’ frontline experiences. It is meticulously researched and engages with relevant historiography, and it also reads well. … It is also an important addition to the history of masculinity and gender in general. This is, in short, a terrific book.” • American Historical Review “This fascinating book makes significant contributions as both a highly original gender history of combat motivation and as an intervention into research on the Habsburg Empire in the First World War…This well-researched and thought-provoking study will be of great interest for scholars of the late Habsburg Empire and the First World War. Moreover, Hutečka’s innovative approach has valuable lessons for military historians. It provides a model demonstrating imaginatively how analysis focused on gender can generate essential new insights into why men fight.” • International Journal of Military History and Historiography “Jiří Hutečka’s work is an immensely important and welcome contribution to scholarship on gendered experiences of war, serving as a reminder that even a well-known case can and should be approached from new perspectives. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of the First World War, historians of central Europe, and those concerned with the study of gender in armed conflict.” • Canadian Slavonic Papers “Hutečka accomplished his goal of using gender to illuminate Czech soldiers’ motivation. He deserves praise for writing an effective and useful book that should be read by students and historians of gender and war.” • Journal of Military History “Hutečka has written one of the most energetic and insightful studies of First World War soldiers in any army or country.” • Bohemia “Based on a rich source base, this superbly innovative study forces us to rethink how men experienced and endured the violence of the First World War. It takes us deep into that world of male powerlessness, where a soldier’s sense of their personal masculinity was constantly being challenged and deformed. Jiří Hutečka puts Czech behaviour in the Habsburg army at the heart of this horror, cutting through the old histories to reveal why the stereotype of the ‘disloyal Czech’ finally became a reality by 1918. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how men and masculinity are shaped by war, and it also impressively forges a new path for those who seek to understand and explain the wartime Austro-Hungarian army.” • Mark Cornwall, University of Southampton “Hutečka has fluently written an especially interesting and insightful book that is replete with fascinating vignettes culled from a range of first-hand testimonial accounts. He situates his sources and analysis expertly within the literature on the First World War and the experience of soldiers in other European countries.” • Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University “Men under Fire not only fills a gap in existing scholarship on the First World War by exploring Czech soldiers’ experiences, it sheds new light on masculinity and war in general. In particular, Hutečka’s nuanced analysis of conformity, obedience, and dissonance, as well as physical and psychological damage, make this book deserving of attention from scholars who specialize in the complex, subjective, traumatic effects of modern war.” • Jason Crouthamel, author of An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World WarTable of Contents List of illustrations Preface to the English Edition Introduction Chapter 1. Tournament of Manliness: Mobilization Chapter 2. Compromises of Manliness: Everyday Experience Chapter 3. Transformation of Manliness: Comradeship Chapter 4. The Degradation of Manliness: The Military Authorities Chapter 5. Venues of Manliness: Home Chapter 6. Manliness under Fire: Combat and the Body Conclusion Bibliography

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Book Synopsis Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual developments, and the arts.Trade Review “Overall, the volume offers a broad panorama of the history of violence in East Central Europe. The individual essays are thematically diverse and offer an excellent synthesis of multilingual sources of research literature and theory.” • H-Soz-Kult “This is an excellent collection of high-quality essays on a topic that is at the cutting edge of the field and which builds on a fast-growing interest in the impacts of the First World War.” • Roland Clark, University of LiverpoolTable of Contents Introduction Jochen Böhler, Ota Konrád and Rudolf Kučera Chapter 1. The Baltikumer: Collective Violence and German Paramilitaries after 1918 Mathias Voigtmann Chapter 2. Pogroms and Imposture: The Violent Self-Formation of Ukrainian Warlords Christopher Gilley Chapter 3. Toward an Interactional Theory of Sexual Violence: The White Terror in Hungary between 1919 and 1921 Béla Bodó Chapter 4. The Many Lives of Mrs. Hamburger: Gender, Violence, and Counter-Revolution, 1919–1930 Emily R. Gioielli Chapter 5. “A Little Murderous Party”: Poland after the First World War in the Works of Joseph Roth Winson Chu Chapter 6. Suicide Discourses: The Austrian Example in the International Context from World War I to the 1930s Hannes Leidinger Chapter 7. The “Healthy Nerves” of the Nation: War Neuroses in Austria-Hungary and its Successor States Maciej Górny Chapter 8. Forging a “Winning Spirit”: The North American YMCA and the Czechoslovak Army 1918–1921 Ondřej Matějka Chapter 9. When the Defeated Become Victorious: Averting Violence with Football in Post-1918 Romania Cătălin Parfene Afterword: The End of the Great War and Postwar Problems—Research Conclusions Boris Barth

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Book SynopsisThe Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. The war took millions of lives, led to the fall of four empires, established new nations, and negatively affected others. During and after the war, individuals and communities struggled to find expression for their wartime encounters and communal as well as individual mourning. Throughout this time of enormous upheaval, many artists redefined their role in society, among them writers, performers, painters, and composers. Some sought to renew or re-establish their place in the postwar climate, while others longed for an irretrievable past, and still others tried to break with the past entirely. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, exploring the ways that artists contributed to wartime culture – both representing and shaping it – as well as the ways in which wartime culture influenced artistic expressions. Artists’ places within and against reconstruction efforts illuminate the struggles of the day. The essays included represent a transnational perspective and seek to examine how artists dealt with the experience of conflict and mourning and their role in (re-)establishing creative practices in the changing climate of the interwar years.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: The Front: Masculinity and Heroic Imagination – Libby Murphy: Illustrators, Icons, and the Infantryman Re-imagined: Cartoon Soldiers of the Great War – Breanne Robertson: Romancing the Bayonet: Blood, Glory, and the Battlefield Sublime in American Depictions of the Great War – Teresa Bertilotti: The Soldier’s Theatre: A Wooden Theatre behind Carso’s Front Line – Richard D. Sonn: Immigrant Jewish Artists and Masculinity in France during the Great War – Civilians and the Home Front: Gender, Censorship, Propaganda, and the Avant-Garde – George Robb: Artists as Censors: The Case of the Vigilantes – Gizem Tongo: Militarization and Mobilization of the Ottoman Art World during World War I: An Internal Kulturkampf – Mechella Yezernitskaya: Civilians Seeing the War: Olga Rozanova’s and Aleksei Kruchenykh’s 1916 War – Paul D. van Wie: Gendered Propaganda: The Financial Appeal to Women in World War I Germany – Coping with War Trauma: Tradition, Nostalgia, and (Re)construction – Stephen Katz: Fighting a Dual War: Hebrew Literature and the Experience of the Great War – Chandler Carter: Has Wozzeck Got the Blues? – Tristan Paré-Morin: The Politics of Nostalgic Waltzes in Post-World War I Paris – Postwar: Memory, Memorializing, and Commemoration – Ann Murray: Between Art and History: Reconfiguring the Memory of World War I in Otto Dix’s Metropolis – Nora M. Heimann: Spirits, Spectres, Saints in Memorializing the Great War – Elizabeth Benjamin: The (French) Art of Remembering: Representations of World War I from the Contemporary to the Contemporaneous.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of the Lost Generation—Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain—as well as other less typical cases—George Mallory and JRR Tolkien—to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British society, culture, and politics.Table of ContentsChapter 1: British Upper-Class Identity as a Legitimizing Collective IdentityChapter 2: The Fracture of Upper-Class IdentityChapter 3: Cultural or Collective Trauma and Collective IdentityChapter 4: Forms of Resistance IdentityChapter 5: Project Identities: Pacifism and Building an Anti-Modern World

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Book SynopsisAthanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis (1878–1945) was a Greek military officer, undercover agent, author, and politician who is not as well known in Greece today as he should be. Inasmuch as he is remembered at all today, Souliotis-Nikolaidis is associated with the much better-known Ion Dragoumis with whom he was connected with bonds of friendship and ideology. In this work the author examines the subject's role and contribution to Greece's irredentist activities of the early 20th century and answers some key questions. What were Souliotis-Nikolaidis's achievements as an undercover agent in Ottoman Macedonia? What was his behind-the-scenes role in the early elections of the Ottoman Empire following the Young Turk Revolt? What was his relationship with important individuals and organizations of the Greek Diaspora? What was his contribution to the unique idea about the future of Greeks and Turks in a unified federal state? In this work the author reveals that Souliotis-Nikolaidis, far from being a minor player in Greek irredentism was an important actor whose many contributions deserve recognition. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The End of The Line2: Greece at the Dawn of the 20th Century3: The Ordinary Life of an Obscure Army Officer4: Cloak and Dagger in the Balkans5: Cloak and Dagger in Constantinople6: Friends and Intellectual Partners7: The Life of Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis8: Last Services Rendered9: Some Final ThoughtsAppendix: Further ReadingWorks CitedAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisA compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Yet the romantic image of gallant 'aces' belies the horrible reality of air warfare: of flimsy aircraft, of unprotected pilots with no parachutes; of burning 19-year-olds falling screaming to their deaths; of pilots freezing and disorientated as they flew across enemy lines. In this unforgettable book, bestselling author James Hamilton-Paterson reveals the brutal truths of wartime aviation and shows how those four years of fighting in the air would change the nature of warfare forever. 'For its mix of clear-eyed history, myth-busting and gobsmacking derring-do it's hard to beat James Hamilton Patterson's Marked for Death' Nick Curtis, Book of the Year in the Evening StandardTrade ReviewA terrific story, which Hamilton-Paterson tells with tremendous relish, elegance and attention to detail. An acclaimed poet and novelist, he is excellent at capturing the sheer courage of the pilots who ran risks that almost defy credibility * Sunday Times *A superb book, not only meticulously researched but also supremely readable * Daily Mail *An exhilarating book... by turns, thrilling, joyful, wistful and provocative' -- Rowland WhiteClear-eyed history, myth-busting and gobsmacking derring-do * Evening Standard *Soars far above most First World War histories... This book brings alive both the exhilaration of flight and the experience of killing' * Sunday Times *Hamilton-Paterson's thorough research reveals much – his book is a wide-ranging education of WWI aviation and is written by someone who really knows flying. Highly recommended! * Pilot Magazine *Hamilton-Paterson unsparingly exposes the truth of early wartime aviation: of flimsy aircraft and unprotected pilots who had no parachutes * Catholic Herald *A well-researched history of the air operations of WW1 from an unusual perspective... a high quality historical work which is at the same time highly readable' * Aerospace Magazine *

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Book SynopsisThe story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more than two million people. 'A very well-researched account of that extraordinary and fascinating sideshow of the First World War' Antony Beevor 'Meticulously researched and written with tremendous lucidity and brio' William Boyd, Sunday Times 'The definitive history of that war... Minutely detailed yet entirely engrossing' Nigel Jones, Sunday Telegraph A 'small war', consisting of a few 'local affairs', was all that was expected of the East Africa campaign in August 1914. But two weeks after the Armistice was signed in Europe, British and German troops were still fighting in Africa. The expense of the campaign to the British Empire was immense, the Allied and German 'butchers bills' even greater. But the most tragic consequence of the two sides' deadly game of 'tip and run' was the devastation of an area five times the size of Germany, and civilian suffering on a scale unimaginable in Europe. Such was the cost of 'The White Man's Palaver' – the final phase of the European conquest of Africa.Trade ReviewSuperb... Meticulously researched and written with tremendous lucidity and brio' -- William Boyd, Sunday TimesThe definitive history of that war... Minutely detailed yet entirely engrossing' * Sunday Telegraph *A masterful, damning, definitive account * Daily Mail *A very well researched and well written account of that extraordinary and fascinating sideshow of the First World War, the Anglo-German war in Africa -- Antony BeevorGripping... I wholeheartedly recommend this fascinating book' * Daily Telegraph *Exhaustively researched, well written and admirably balanced * Literary Review *Engrossing... A story of the nightmare shaped by European fantasies and lethally visited on African societies' * Guardian *Extraordinary, admirably researched history... As a feat of synthesis and co-ordination of sources, Tip and Run is amazing' * Spectator *Very well written and researched, and, with a wealth of detail and good maps, it is certainly a good read * BBC History. *A superb account that is as moving as it is incisive... Tip and Run is a magnificent achievement' * Irish Times. *

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Book SynopsisThe bloodiest battle in the history of the British Army.In 1916 the Great War seemed caught in a stalemate. The British were determined to break it with a huge summer push. By the time the campaign wound down in November, it proved to be the most destructive ever encounter for the Army, seeing thousands of casualties for every day of the conflict. It wasn’t meant to have been like this: the British had a massive artillery superiority, and were primed to crush their enemy. In the end, despite fierce fighting, the Germans lost far fewer men.The Somme has come to be an emblem for the horrors of war, for the pounding of shells and the hunkering down in rain-sodden trenches. What happened? How did it go so wrong for the British? Here in sharp detail, the bestselling writer John Harris tells the story of one the key battles of world history, describing in gripping terms how a series of events soon spiralled wildly, and hopelessly, out of control.This is an unforgettable history of assault and bitter defence that takes the reader into the ferocious heart of a conflict whose scars remain today.

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Book Synopsis The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.Trade Review “Taken together this set of essays provides an exciting overview of current work in the field and sets an agenda for further research on this crucial period in Central and East Central European history. This is a valuable, impressive collection, and the editors must be complimented on their achievement.” • German History “As a whole, this book succeeds in complicating our views of the postimperial transition… This book gives us an able starting point on which to build new scholarship and continue conversations with one another that enliven and enrich our understanding of a complicated and difficult past.” • H-Net (Habsburg) “Overall, this is an excellent text with a lot of interesting and novel observations on the experiences of people in the successor states of the AustroHungarian Empire. Our tendency in the past has been to wall off our studies along contemporary national boundaries, and the editors of this book have illustrated how these new nation- states both related to one another and struggled to create independent identities. Scholars of the late years of the empire and the transitions aft er its dissolution will undoubtedly find it a valuable resource, and I would not limit my recommendation just to historians. Anyone who studies Central European culture in the first half of the twentieth century may find something useful in this book.” • Journal of Austrian Studies “Recently, another research trend can be observed: a revitalization of regional history. This has also brought new perspectives to the Habsburg monarchy and its neighbours and its successor states…This volume takes up these research trends... and makes an important contribution. The title "Embers of the Empire" can be taken literally. From the embers of empires, the successor states were able to strike new political sparks; under the surface of the new democratic orders, however, conflicts continue to swell… The study of the common history of empires and nation states, not least in their regional shades, offers many points of reference for further research.” • Bohemia
 “In his afterword, Pieter Judson reminds us of the still dominant ideal of nations and nation states especially after 1918. As this ambitious and, all in all, very successful volume shows, however, new approaches in the study of history will offer new perspectives on the intricate afterlife of the Habsburg Empire.” • Hungarian Historical Review “The major strengths of the work are informed, updated, and ambitious pieces that attempt to span the range of the empire in the style of the ‘Kronprinzenwerk’. Embers of Empire thus represents a sound start for further research, especially on the biographies of less well-known personalities that appeared on the stage in the wobbly world of the post-bellum states. For these reasons, it should find its place in every Habsburg and Central European historian’s shelf.” • Vicko Marelić in Contemporary Austrian Studies “Embers of Empire is a highly impressive, thoroughly researched, and very well-written collection that draws on sources from multiple archives across all of the languages of the successor states. It will be of great interest to historians of Europe and Habsburg scholars, as well as specialists focusing on Eastern Europe and the Balkans.” • Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans “The brilliant and well-informed essays in this collection insightfully deal with continuities between the late Habsburg and post-Habsburg eras. It exemplifies the recent stream of scholarship that has significantly revised the history of the Habsburg Empire and its legacies.” • Rudolf Kučera, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of SciencesTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Claire Morelon PART I: PERMANENCE AND REVOLUTION: NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE TRANSITION TO THE SUCCESSOR STATES Chapter 1. Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions: Local Societies and Nationalizing States in East Central Europe Gábor Egry Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague Claire Morelon Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Biliński between Imperial Austria and New Poland Iryna Vushko Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873–1928 Marta Filipová PART II: THE HABSBURG ARMY'S FINAL BATTLES Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States Richard Bassett Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K.(u.) K. Officers of Romanian Nationality Before and after the Great War Irina Marin Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918–1929 John Paul Newman PART III: CHURCH, DYNASTY, ARISTOCRACY: THE POST-WAR FATE OF IMPERIAL PILLARS Chapter 8. “All the German Princes Driven Out!”: The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic Michael Carter-Sinclair Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past?: Central European Nobles during and after the First World War Konstantinos Raptis Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint―or Cipher?: The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I Christopher Brennan PART IV: HISTORY, MEMORY, MENTALITÉ: PROCESSING THE EMPIRE'S PASSING Chapter 11. “What Did They Die For?”: War Remembrance in Austria in the Transition from Empire to Nation State Christoph Mick Chapter 12. “The First Victim of the First World War”: Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory Paul Miller Afterword Pieter M. Judson Index

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Book Synopsis From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.Trade Review “Each chapter offers a fresh account of complex national commemorative cultures and historiography and is packed with arresting insights. Coming after the wave of centenary commemorations, this volume is an essential addition to the literature and will stimulate further research on World War I.” • William Mulligan, University College Dublin “The aim of this volume is as ambitious as it is commendable: to describe and analyze collective memories and historiographies of the Great War in a variety of geographical contexts. Even for scholars who have long studied World War I, it offers fascinating material” • Gerhard Hirschfeld, University of Stuttgart “Writing the Great War covers the historiography of the war both in depth and in breadth. The contributors are leading scholars who provide enlightening insights into politics, memory, and historiography. Specialists will find much to spark their interests and students will find it a useful guide to a complex field.” • Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War ITable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding World War I: One Hundred Years of Historiographical Debate and Worldwide Commemoration Christoph Cornelißen and Arndt Weinrich Chapter 1. (Hi-)stories and Memories of the Great War in France. 1914–2018 Nicolas Offenstadt Chapter 2. Histories and Memories: Recounting the Great War in Belgium, 1914–2014 Bruno Benvindo and Benoît Majerus Chapter 3. British and Commonwealth Historiography of World War I Jay Winter Chapter 4. Of Expectations and Aspirations: South Asian Perspectives on World War I, the World, and the Subcontinent Margret Frenz Chapter 5. German Historiography on World War I, 1914–2019 Christoph Cornelißen and Arndt Weinrich Chapter 6. Austrian Historiography and Perspectives on the First World War: The Long Shadow of the “Just War” 1914–2018 Oliver Rathkolb Chapter 7. Russia in World War One: The Politics of Memory and Historiography Boris Kolonitskii Chapter 8. The Invention of Yugoslav Identity: Serbian and South Slav Historiographies on World War I, 1918–2018 Stanislav Sretenović Chapter 9. A Seminal “Anti-Catastrophe”? Historiography on the First World War in Poland Piotr Szlanta Chapter 10. A Historiographical Turn: Evolving Interpretations of Japan during World War I Jan Schmidt and Naoko Shimazu Chapter 11. Coming to Terms with the Imperial Legacy and the Violence of War: Turkish Historiography of WWI between Autarchy and a Plurality of Voices Alexandre Toumarkine Chapter 12. Italian Memory and Historiography and the First World War Angelo Ventrone Chapter 13. Finding a Place for the First World War in American History Jennifer D. Keene Index

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