Uroš Košir - Böcker

The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledge of the conflict and, most importantly, of those who participated and were affected by it, altered from country to country, and in some cases has been almost entirely forgotten.New research strategies have emerged to help broaden our understanding of the First World War. Multidisciplinary approaches have been applied to material culture and conflict landscapes, from archive sources analysis and aerial photography to remote sensing, GIS and field research. Working within the context of a material and archival understanding of war, this book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies, with particular concentration on the central and eastern European theatres of war.

This book provides the first account of the Isonzo/Soča frontline through the multidisciplinary lens of modern conflict archaeology, offering unique insights into multilayered conflict landscapes of the Soča Front.Archaeological research into the sites of the Soča Front of the First World War in present‑day Slovenia has been gathering momentum for more than a decade now. The main chapters are accompanied by a historical and theoretical overview of Great War archaeology and modern conflict archaeology in Europe, with a focus on Slovenia and Central and Eastern Europe. Readers are provided with a historical summary of the battles on the Soča Front to enhance understanding of the multilayered conflict landscapes examined in three central chapters. The first one focuses on evolving attitudes toward the Soča Front’s heritage and the gradual militarisation of the landscape up until the outbreak of hostilities in late May 1915. The second main chapter explores the archaeological aspects of the conflict landscape from 1915 to 1917, including the landscape of the dead, memory, and the salvage of useful war matériel after the conflict ended. The third central chapter analyses the battlefield on Mt. Rombon as a multilayered conflict landscape through the lens of modern conflict archaeology.This book is intended for all those interested in the archaeology and history of the somewhat lesser‑known Soča Front of the First World War. Due to its focus on the topic of modern conflict archaeology, this book is aimed at archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, geographers, and others who study conflict landscapes, material culture, and the multilayered legacies of the First World War.