World War I

Michael Neiberg is Professor of History and Director of the Center for War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Contents: Introduction; Eastern Front: Steering through rapids: Russian mobilization and World War I, Stephen J. Cimbala; The Balkan campaign and French war aims in the Great War, D.J. Dutton; The mobilization of 1914 and the question of the Russian nation: a reexamination, Josh Sanborn; The East gives nothing back: the Great War and the German army in Russia, Dennis Showalter; Rumania and the belligerents 1914-1916, Glenn E. Torrey; Turkey's entry into World War I: an assessment of responsibilities, Ulrich Trumpener. Home Fronts: Sharing scarcity: bread rationing and the First World War in Berlin, 1914-1923, Keith Allen; Military recruiting and the British labour force during the First World War, P.E. Dewey; Improvising the British war effort: Eric Geddes and Lloyd George 1915-18, Keith Grieves; White feathers and wounded men: female patriotism and the memory of the Great War, Nicoletta F. Gullace; The outbreak of war and the urban economy: Paris, Berlin, and London in 1914, Jon Lawrence, Martin Dean and Jean-Louis Robert; The color line behind the lines: Racial violence in France during the Great War, Tyler Stovall. Western Front: To the last limits of their strength: the French army and the logistics of attrition at the Battle of Verdun, 21 February -18 December 1916, Robert Bruce; The meaning of attrition, 1914-1916, David French; German 'Atrocities' and Franco-German opinion, 1914: The evidence of German soldiers' diaries', John Horne and Alan Kramer; Tactical dysfunction in the AEF, 1917-1918, Timothy K. Nenninger; Why the British were really on the Somme: a reply to Elizabeth Greenhalgh, William Philpott; Madelon and the men - in war and memory, Charles Rearick; The battle of the Somme and British strategy, Hew Strachan; The road to Ypres: the beginnings of gas warfare in World War I, Ulrich Trumpener. Other Fronts: France, Africa, and the First World War, C.M. Andrew and A.S. Kanya-Forstner; The North-west frontier in the First World War, Lal Bah