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
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<lS$
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