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A companion to World War I

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 histori...

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Other Authors: Horne, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, UK Wiley-Blackwell 2012
Edition:Paperback ed.
Subjects:
World war, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Origins
  • The war imagined : 1890-1914 / Gerd Krumeich
  • The war explained : 1914 to the present / John Keiger
  • pt. 2. The military conflict
  • The war experienced : command, strategy, and tactics, 1914-1918 / Hew Strachan
  • War in the West, 1914-1916 / Holger Herwig
  • War in the East and Balkans, 1914-18 / Denis Showalter
  • The Italian front, 1915-18 / Giorgio Rochat
  • The Turkish War, 1914-1918 / Ulrich Trumpener
  • The war in Africa / David Killingray
  • Western front, 1917-18 / Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior
  • The war at sea / Paul G. Halpern
  • War in the air / John H. Morrow
  • pt. 3. Faces of war
  • Combat / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau
  • Atrocities and massacres / Alan Kramer
  • War aims and neutrality / Jean-Jacques Becker
  • Industrial mobilization and war economies / Theo Balderston
  • Faiths, ideologies and the "cultures of war" / Annette Becker
  • Demography / Jay Winter
  • Gender (masculinity and femininity) / Susan Grayzel
  • Labour, pacifism, and revolution / John Horne
  • Medicine and psychology (including shell-shock) / Sophie Delaporte
  • Science and technology / Anne Rasmussen
  • Intellectuals and writers / Christophe Prochasson
  • The visual arts and the war / Annette Becker
  • Film and the war / Pierre Sorlin
  • pt. 4. States, nations, and empires
  • Austria-Hungary and "Yugoslavia" / Mark Cornwall
  • Belgium / Sophie de Schaepdrijver
  • Britain and Ireland / Adrian Gregory
  • France / r Leonard Smith
  • Germany / Gerhard Hirschfeld
  • German-occupied Eastern Europe / Vejas Liulevicius
  • Italy / Antonio Gibelli
  • Russia / Eric Lohr
  • Turkey / Hamit Boazarslan
  • USA / Jennifer Keene
  • French and British empires / Robert Aldrich and Chris Hilliard
  • pt. 5. Legacies
  • The peace settlement, 1919-1939 / Carole Fink
  • War after the war : conflicts, 1919-23 / Peter Gatrell
  • Mourning and memory / Laurence van Ypersele

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