A Companion to World War I

John Horne

John Wiley & Sons, Jan 30, 2012 - History - 724 pages

A Companion to the First World War brings together a team of distinguished historians from 10 countries who contribute 38 substantial and thought-provoking chapters. The volume opens with a section on the state of the world before 1914, as it prepared for war without anticipating its true nature, and concludes with an examination of the conflict's military, diplomatic, and cultural legacies. In addition to covering the military history of the war and the individual states involved, contributors explore major themes such as war crimes, occupations, film, and gender.

Reflecting the latest historical research, this Companion enriches our understanding of the origins, nature, and impact of what remains one of the most devastating events in modern history.

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Contents

• 1914 to the Present: 19
• THE MILITARY CONFLICT: 33
• War in the West 191416: 49
• War in the East and Balkans 191418: 66
• The Italian Front 191518: 82
• The Turkish War 191418: 97
• The War in Africa: 112
• War in the West 191718: 127
• The War at Sea: 141
• The War in the Air: 156
• FACES OF WAR: 171
• Atrocities Massacres and War Crimes: 188
• War Aims and Neutrality: 202
• Industrial Mobilization and War Economies: 217
• Faith Ideologies and the Cultures of War: 234
• Demography: 248
• Women and Men: 263
• Public Opinion and Politics: 279
• Military Medicine: 295
• Science and Technology: 307
• Intellectuals and Writers: 323
• The Visual Arts: 338
• Film and the War: 353
• STATES NATIONS AND EMPIRES: 369
• Belgium: 386
• Britain and Ireland: 403
• France: 418
• Germany: 432
• GermanOccupied Eastern Europe: 447
• Italy: 464
• Russia: 479
• The Ottoman Empire: 494
• The United States: 508
• The French and British Empires: 524
• LEGACIES: 541
• Conflicts 191923: 558
• Mourning and Memory 191945: 576

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Companion to World War I; Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
• Editor: John Horne
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012
• ISBN: 1119968704, 9781119968702
• Length: 724 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / Military / World War I