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A companion to World War I

John Horne
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 strat
eBook, English, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, U.K., 2010
1 online resource (xxviii, 696 pages) : illustrations, maps
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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 / 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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