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 wars legacy. Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins: The war imagined, 1890-1914 / Gerd Krumeich -- The war explained, 1914 to the present / John F.V. Keiger -- The military conflict: The war experienced : command, strategy, and tactics, 1914-18 / Hew Strachan -- War in the West, 1914-16 / Holger H. Herwig -- War in the East and Balkans, 1914-18 / Dennis Showalter -- The Italian front, 1915-18 / Giorgio Rochat -- The Turkish War, 1914-18 / Ulrich Trumpener -- The war in Africa / David Killingray -- War in the West, 1917-18 / Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson -- The war at sea / Paul G. Halpern -- The war in the air / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- Faces of war: Combat / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau -- Combatants and noncombatants : atrocities, massacres, and war crimes / Alan Kramer -- War aims and neutrality / Jean-Jacques Becker -- Industrial mobilization and war economies / Theo Balderston -- Faith, ideologies, and the "cultures of war" / Annette Becker -- Demography / Jay Winter -- Women and men / Susan R. Grayzel -- Public opinion and politics / John Horne -- Military medicine / Sophie Delaporte -- Science and technology / Anne Rasmussen -- Intellectuals and writers / Christophe Prochasson -- The visual arts / Annette Becker -- Film and the war / Pierre Sorlin -- States, nations, and empires -- Austria-Hungary and "Yugoslavia" / Mark Cornwall -- Belgium / Sophie de Schaepdrijver -- Britain and Ireland / Adrian Gregory -- France / Leonard V. Smith -- Germany / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- German-occupied Eastern Europe / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius -- Italy / Antonio Gibelli -- Russia / Eric Lohr -- The Ottoman Empire / Hamit Bozarslan -- The United States / Jennifer D. Keene -- The French and British empires / Robert Aldrich and Christopher Hilliard -- Legacies: The peace settlement, 1919-39 / Carole Fink -- War after the war : conflicts, 1919-23 / Peter Gatrell -- Mourning and memory, 1919-45 / Laurence Van Ypersele.