John Horne 
A Companion to World War I [PDF ebook] 

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 strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts

* Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE

Table des matières

List of Maps viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Editor’s Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvi

John Horne

PART I ORIGINS 1

1 The War Imagined: 1890-1914 3

Gerd Krumeich

2 The War Explained: 1914 to the Present 19

John F. V. Keiger

PART II THE MILITARY CONFLICT 33

3 The War Experienced: Command, Strategy, and Tactics,
1914-18 35

Hew Strachan

4 War in the West, 1914-16 49

Holger H. Herwig

5 War in the East and Balkans, 1914-18 66

Dennis Showalter

6 The Italian Front, 1915-18 82

Giorgio Rochat

7 The Turkish War, 1914-18 97

Ulrich Trumpener

8 The War in Africa 112

David Killingray

9 War in the West, 1917-18 127

Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson

10 The War at Sea 141

Paul G. Halpern

11 The War in the Air 156

John H. Morrow, Jr.

PART III FACES OF WAR 171

12 Combat 173

Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau

13 Combatants and Noncombatants: Atrocities, Massacres, and War
Crimes 188

Alan Kramer

14 War Aims and Neutrality 202

Jean-Jacques Becker

15 Industrial Mobilization and War Economies 217

Theo Balderston

16 Faith, Ideologies, and the ‘Cultures of War’
234

Annette Becker

17 Demography 248

Jay Winter

18 Women and Men 263

Susan R. Grayzel

19 Public Opinion and Politics 279

John Horne

20 Military Medicine 295

Sophie Delaporte

21 Science and Technology 307

Anne Rasmussen

22 Intellectuals and Writers 323

Christophe Prochasson

23 The Visual Arts 338

Annette Becker

24 Film and the War 353

Pierre Sorlin

PART IV STATES, NATIONS, AND EMPIRES 369

25 Austria-Hungary and ‘Yugoslavia’ 371

Mark Cornwall

26 Belgium 386

Sophie de Schaepdrijver

27 Britain and Ireland 403

Adrian Gregory

28 France 418

Leonard V. Smith

29 Germany 432

Gerhard Hirschfeld

30 German-Occupied Eastern Europe 447

Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

31 Italy 464

Antonio Gibelli

32 Russia 479

Eric Lohr

33 The Ottoman Empire 494

Hamit Bozarslan

34 The United States 508

Jennifer D. Keene

35 The French and British Empires 524

Robert Aldrich and Christopher Hilliard

PART V LEGACIES 541

36 The Peace Settlement, 1919-39 543

Carole Fink

37 War after the War: Conflicts, 1919-23 558

Peter Gatrell

38 Mourning and Memory, 1919-45 576

Laurence Van Ypersele

Select Primary Sources 591

Extended Bibliography 601

Index 634

A propos de l’auteur

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.