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Book SynopsisA Companion to the First World War brings together a team of distinguished historians from 10 countries who contribute 38 substantial and thought-provoking chapters. In addition to covering the military history of the war and the individual states involved, contributors explore major themes such as war crimes, occupations, film, and gender.
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'The recipe for this volume's success is simple: take 30 or so of today's leading specialists, provide them with five broad categories in which to articulate their understanding of this conflict, insist that bibliography be a priority, and oversee the project with a scholar who is himself a respected, widely published authority. The book's 38 essays are grouped to treat five aspects of the struggle: origins, conduct, culture, a survey of the major individual states involved, and a finale that treats the peace conference and the war's aftermath....[A] superb one-stop portal into the period.' Choice
'Horne is to be congratulated for editing such a disparate group of essays into a cohesive whole'. Reviews in History
'This substantial and comprehensive work is an important contribution to the literature of a conflict central to the history of the modern world.' Reference Reviews
'In its scope, its detail and the quality of scholarship and writing, this book certainly fulfils the aims of the Blackwell Companions in presenting up-to-date research in a way that is accessible for both those studying the subject and those with a general interest . It will provide both with a useful resource, but is perhaps most effective as a resource used by students on courses dealing with the war or modern conflicts more broadly, providing potted histories of important aspects of the Great War across the globe. The attention given to fronts other than France and Flanders, and nations other than those that fought there, is both laudable and effective, a useful corrective the Euro-centrism that often affects English-language works on the Great War.' H-Soz-u-Kult
Table of ContentsList of Maps viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Editor's Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvi
John Horne
PART I ORIGINS 1
1 The War Imagined: 1890–1914 3
Gerd Krumeich
2 The War Explained: 1914 to the Present 19
John F. V. Keiger
PART II THE MILITARY CONFLICT 33
3 The War Experienced: Command, Strategy, and Tactics, 1914–18 35
Hew Strachan
4 War in the West, 1914–16 49
Holger H. Herwig
5 War in the East and Balkans, 1914–18 66
Dennis Showalter
6 The Italian Front, 1915–18 82
Giorgio Rochat
7 The Turkish War, 1914–18 97
Ulrich Trumpener
8 The War in Africa 112
David Killingray
9 War in the West, 1917–18 127
Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson
10 The War at Sea 141
Paul G. Halpern
11 The War in the Air 156
John H. Morrow, Jr.
PART III FACES OF WAR 171
12 Combat 173
Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau
13 Combatants and Noncombatants: Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes 188
Alan Kramer
14 War Aims and Neutrality 202
Jean-Jacques Becker
15 Industrial Mobilization and War Economies 217
Theo Balderston
16 Faith, Ideologies, and the “Cultures of War” 234
Annette Becker
17 Demography 248
Jay Winter
18 Women and Men 263
Susan R. Grayzel
19 Public Opinion and Politics 279
John Horne
20 Military Medicine 295
Sophie Delaporte
21 Science and Technology 307
Anne Rasmussen
22 Intellectuals and Writers 323
Christophe Prochasson
23 The Visual Arts 338
Annette Becker
24 Film and the War 353
Pierre Sorlin
PART IV STATES, NATIONS, AND EMPIRES 369
25 Austria-Hungary and “Yugoslavia” 371
Mark Cornwall
26 Belgium 386
Sophie de Schaepdrijver
27 Britain and Ireland 403
Adrian Gregory
28 France 418
Leonard V. Smith
29 Germany 432
Gerhard Hirschfeld
30 German-Occupied Eastern Europe 447
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
31 Italy 464
Antonio Gibelli
32 Russia 479
Eric Lohr
33 The Ottoman Empire 494
Hamit Bozarslan
34 The United States 508
Jennifer D. Keene
35 The French and British Empires 524
Robert Aldrich and Christopher Hilliard
PART V LEGACIES 541
36 The Peace Settlement, 1919–39 543
Carole Fink
37 War after the War: Conflicts, 1919–23 558
Peter Gatrell
38 Mourning and Memory, 1919–45 576
Laurence Van Ypersele
Select Primary Sources 591
Extended Bibliography 601
Index 634
