Patrick Fridenson Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,Paris Translated from the French by Bruce Little

'The translation of the collective work by Fridenson is, in fact, part of a new series dedicated to the 'Legacy of the Great War' published by Berg...That series has already produced translations of excellent works on the war, such as Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau's Men at War 1914-18 (1993) and Antoine Prost's In the Wake of War (1992).'The International History Review'Another in Berg's fine series entitled 'The Legacy of the Great War', this translation offers ten essays adeptly selected to cover the breadth of the French experience. [...] ...the essays provide an important window on a society which, more than most, was consumed by the Great War.'Canadian Military History

• The other front, Patrick Friedenson; "That's the Death Knell of our Boys..", Jean-Jacques Becker; the radical socialist party during the First World War, Serge Berstein; industrial mobilization in 1914-1918 - production, planning and ideology, Gerd Hardach; Albert Thomas and the war industries, Alain Hennebicque; Gnome et Rhone - an aviation engine firm in the First World War, James M. Laux; the calcium carbide case and the decriminalization of industrial ententes in France, 1915-26, Robert O. Paxton; female munitions workers of the Seine Mathilde Dubesset, Francoise Thebaud and Catherine Vincent; the shop delegate system at Renault, Gilbert Hatry; co-operatives and the labour movement in Paris during the Great War, Jean-Louis Robert; the comites d'action (CGT - parti socialiste) and the origins of wartime labour reformism, John Horne.

Patrick Fridenson Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,Paris Translated from the French by Bruce Little

'The translation of the collective work by Fridenson is, in fact, part of a new series dedicated to the 'Legacy of the Great War' published by Berg...That series has already produced translations of excellent works on the war, such as Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau's Men at War 1914-18 (1993) and Antoine Prost's In the Wake of War (1992).'The International History Review'Another in Berg's fine series entitled 'The Legacy of the Great War', this translation offers ten essays adeptly selected to cover the breadth of the French experience. [...] ...the essays provide an important window on a society which, more than most, was consumed by the Great War.'Canadian Military History

• The other front, Patrick Friedenson; "That's the Death Knell of our Boys..", Jean-Jacques Becker; the radical socialist party during the First World War, Serge Berstein; industrial mobilization in 1914-1918 - production, planning and ideology, Gerd Hardach; Albert Thomas and the war industries, Alain Hennebicque; Gnome et Rhone - an aviation engine firm in the First World War, James M. Laux; the calcium carbide case and the decriminalization of industrial ententes in France, 1915-26, Robert O. Paxton; female munitions workers of the Seine Mathilde Dubesset, Francoise Thebaud and Catherine Vincent; the shop delegate system at Renault, Gilbert Hatry; co-operatives and the labour movement in Paris during the Great War, Jean-Louis Robert; the comites d'action (CGT - parti socialiste) and the origins of wartime labour reformism, John Horne.