Companion to World War I

John Horne is Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College, Dublin, and a member of the Research Centre at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France. He has published widely on the history of the Great War and of twentieth-century France, including Labour at War: France and Britain, 1914-1918 (ed., 1991), State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War (1997) and (with Alan Kramer), Germany Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (2001), which has appeared in French and German.

Selected as CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 - 3.01.12 '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

• List of Maps viii Notes on Contributors ixEditor's Acknowledgments xvIntroduction xviJohn HornePART I ORIGINS 11 The War Imagined: 1890–1914 3Gerd Krumeich2 The War Explained: 1914 to the Present 19John F. V. KeigerPART II THE MILITARY CONFLICT 333 The War Experienced: Command, Strategy, and Tactics, 1914–18 35Hew Strachan4 War in the West, 1914–16 49Holger H. Herwig5 War in the East and Balkans, 1914–18 66Dennis Showalter6 The Italian Front, 1915–18 82Giorgio Rochat7 The Turkish War, 1914–18 97Ulrich Trumpener8 The War in Africa 112David Killingray9 War in the West, 1917–18 127Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson10 The War at Sea 141Paul G. Halpern11 The War in the Air 156John H. Morrow, Jr.PART III FACES OF WAR 17112 Combat 173Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau13 Combatants and Noncombatants: Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes 188Alan Kramer14 War Aims and Neutrality 202Jean-Jacques Becker15 Industrial Mobilization and War Economies 217Theo Balderston16 Faith, Ideologies, and the “Cultures of War” 234Annette Becker17 Demography 248Jay Winter18 Women and Men 263Susan R. Grayzel19 Public Opinion and Politics 279John Horne20 Military Medicine 295Sophie Delaporte21 Science and Technology 307Anne Rasmussen22 Intellectuals and Writers 323Christophe Prochasson23 The Visual Arts 338Annette Becker24 Film and the War 353Pierre SorlinPART IV STATES, NATIONS, AND EMPIRES 36925 Austria-Hungary and “Yugoslavia” 371Mark Cornwall26 Belgium 386Sophie de Schaepdrijver27 Britain and Ireland 403Adrian Gregory28 France 418Leonard V. Smith29 Germany 432Gerhard Hirschfeld30 German-Occupied Eastern Europe 447Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius31 Italy 464Antonio Gibelli32 Russia 479Eric Lohr33 The Ottoman Empire 494Hamit Bozarslan34 The United States 508Jennifer D. Keene35 The French and British Empires 524Robert Aldrich and Christopher HilliardPART V LEGACIES 54136 The Peace Settlement, 1919–39 543Carole Fink37 War after the War: Conflicts, 1919–23 558Peter Gatrell38 Mourning and Memory, 1919–45 576Laurence Van YperseleSelect Primary Sources 591Extended Bibliography 601Index 634