A Companion to World War I

- Introduction John Horne (Trinity College Dubin). The Great War in historiographical perspective

Part I. War imagined, 1890-1914
1. War imagined: war plans and popular conceptions of war 1900-1914 Gerd Krumeich (University of Düsseldorf) §
2. The causes of the war John Keiger (University of Salford)

Part II. The military conflict
3. The war experienced: command, strategy and tactics, 1914-1918 Hew Strachan (University of Oxford)
4. War in the west, 1914-1916 Holger Herwig (University of Calgary)
5. War in the east and Balkans, 1914-18 Dennis Showalter (Colorado College)
6. The Italian front 1915-18 Giorgio Rochat (University of Turin, emeritus) §
7. The Turkish war, 1914-1918 (Caucasus, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Palestine) Ulrich Trumpener (University of Alberta, emeritus)
8. The War in Africa David Killingray (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
9. Western front 1917-18 Trevor Wilson (University of Adelaide, emeritus) and Robin Prior (Australian Defence Forces Academy)
10. The war at sea, Paul G. Halpern (Florida State University)
11. War in the air John H. Morrow (University of Georgia)

Part III. Faces of war
12. Combat Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau (EHESS, Paris)
13. Atrocities and massacres Alan Kramer (Trinity College Dublin)
14. War aims and neutrality Jean-Jacques Becker (University of Paris X, emeritus)
15. Industrial mobilizations and war economies Mark Harrison (University of Warwick)
16. Faiths, ideologies and 'war cultures' Annette Becker (University of Paris X, Nanterre)
17. Demography Jay Winter (Yale University)
18. Gender (masculinity and femininity) Susan Grayzel (University of Mississippi)
19. Labour, pacifism, and revolution John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
20. Medicine and psychology (including shell-shock) Sophie Delaporte (University of Amiens)
21. Science and technology Anne Rasmussen (University of Strasbourg)
22. Intellectuals and writers Christophe Prochasson (EHESS, Paris)
23. The visual arts and the war

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.

"This substantial and comprehensive work is an important contribution to the literature of a conflict central to the history of the modern world, but librarians should be aware that it is not a book for the reader who comes to the subject for the first time". (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2010) "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 f o r 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 o f 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, November 2010)

Selected as CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 - 3.01.12"This is why books such as A companion to World War I are so valuable." (Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 16 November 2011)'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