A Companion to World War I

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to World War I

Editor(s): John Horne

Published Online: 19 MAR 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405123860

Online ISBN: 9781444323634

DOI: 10.1002/9781444323634

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A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.

  • Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War
  • Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war's legacy
  • Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts
  • Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxviii)

  2. Part I: Origins

    1. Chapter One

      The War Imagined: 1890–1914 (pages 1–18)

      Gerd Krumeich

    2. Chapter Two

      The War Explained: 1914 to the Present (pages 19–31)

      John F. V. Keiger

  3. Part II: The Military Conflict

    1. Chapter Three

      The War Experienced: Command, Strategy, and Tactics, 1914–18 (pages 33–48)

      Hew Strachan

    2. Chapter Four

      War in the West, 1914–16 (pages 49–65)

      Holger H. Herwig

    3. Chapter Five

      War in the East and Balkans, 1914–18 (pages 66–81)

      Dennis Showalter

    4. Chapter Six

      The Italian Front, 1915–18 (pages 82–96)

      Giorgio Rochat

    5. Chapter Seven

      The Turkish War, 1914–18 (pages 97–111)

      Ulrich Trumpener

    6. Chapter Eight

      The War in Africa (pages 112–126)

      David Killingray

    7. Chapter Nine

      War in the West, 1917–18 (pages 127–140)

      Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson

    8. Chapter Ten

      The War at Sea (pages 141–155)

      Paul G. Halpern

    9. Chapter Eleven

      The War in the Air (pages 156–169)

      John H. Morrow

  4. Part III: Faces of War

    1. Chapter Twelve

      Combat (pages 171–187)

      Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau

    2. Chapter Thirteen

      Combatants and Noncombatants: Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes (pages 188–201)

      Alan Kramer

    3. Chapter Fourteen

      War Aims and Neutrality (pages 202–216)

      Jean-Jacques Becker

    4. Chapter Fifteen

      Industrial Mobilization and War Economies (pages 217–233)

      Theo Balderston

    5. Chapter Sixteen

      Faith, Ideologies, and the “Cultures of War” (pages 234–247)

      Annette Becker

    6. Chapter Seventeen

      Demography (pages 248–262)

      Jay Winter

    7. Chapter Eighteen

      Women and Men (pages 263–278)

      Susan R. Grayzel

    8. Chapter Nineteen

      Public Opinion and Politics (pages 279–294)

      John Horne

    9. Chapter Twenty

      Military Medicine (pages 295–306)

      Sophie Delaporte

    10. Chapter Twenty-One

      Science and Technology (pages 307–322)

      Anne Rasmussen

    11. Chapter Twenty-Two

      Intellectuals and Writers (pages 323–337)

      Christophe Prochasson

    12. Chapter Twenty-Three

      The Visual Arts (pages 338–352)

      Annette Becker

    13. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Film and the War (pages 353–367)

      Pierre Sorlin

  5. Part IV: States, Nations, and Empires

    1. Chapter Twenty-Five

      Austria-Hungary and “Yugoslavia” (pages 369–385)

      Mark Cornwall

    2. Chapter Twenty-Six

      Belgium (pages 386–402)

      Sophie De Schaepdrijver

    3. Chapter Twenty-Seven

      Britain and Ireland (pages 403–417)

      Adrian Gregory

    4. Chapter Twenty-Eight

      France (pages 418–431)

      Leonard V. Smith

    5. Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Germany (pages 432–446)

      Gerhard Hirschfeld

    6. Chapter Thirty

      German-Occupied Eastern Europe (pages 447–463)

      Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

    7. Chapter Thirty-One

      Italy (pages 464–478)

      Antonio Gibelli

    8. Chapter Thirty-Two

      Russia (pages 479–493)

      Eric Lohr

    9. Chapter Thirty-Three

      The Ottoman Empire (pages 494–507)

      Hamit Bozarslan

    10. Chapter Thirty-Four

      The United States (pages 508–523)

      Jennifer D. Keene

    11. Chapter Thirty-Five

      The French and British Empires (pages 524–539)

      Robert Aldrich and Christopher Hilliard

  6. Part V: Legacies

    1. Chapter Thirty-Six

      The Peace Settlement, 1919–39 (pages 541–557)

      Carole Fink

    2. Chapter Thirty-Seven

      War after the War: Conflicts, 1919–23 (pages 558–575)

      Peter Gatrell

    3. Chapter Thirty-Eight

      Mourning and Memory, 1919–45 (pages 576–590)

      Laurence Van Ypersele

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      Select Primary Sources (pages 591–600)

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      Extended Bibliography (pages 601–633)

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      Index (pages 634–696)

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