From cabinet war to total war /Hew Strachan -- World War I and the theory of total war / Roger Chickering -- World War I and the revolution in logistics / Martin Van Creveld -- Mass warfare and the impact of technology / Dennis E. Showalter -- Total was as a result of new weapons? / Rolf-Dieter Müller -- Planning total war / Holger Afflerbach -- Most extensive experiment that the imagination can conceive / Wolfgang U. Eckart -- War between soldiers and enemy civilians, 1914-1915 / John Horne and Alan Kramer -- Blockade of Germany and the strategy of starvation, 1914-1918 / Avner Offer -- Total rhetoric, limited war / Holger H. Herwig -- First air war against noncombatants / Christian Geinitz -- Bullying the neutrals / Marc Frey -- Poincaré, Clemenceau, and the quest for total victory / John F.V. Keiger -- Strategy and unlimited warfare in Germany / Wilhelm Deist -- Strategy of unlimited warfare / David French -- French strategy on the western front, 1914-1918 / David Stevenson -- Strategy and total war in the United States / Russell F. Weigley -- War aims, state intervention, and business leadership in Germany / Gerald D. Feldman -- Lloyd George and the management of the British war economy / Keith Grieves -- Better late than never / Elisabeth Glaser -- How (not) to pay for the war / Niall Ferguson -- Mobilizing German society for war / Richard Bessel -- Women's wartime services under the cross / Jean H. Quataert -- Pandora's box / Jörg Nagler -- Painting and music during and after the great war / Arthur Marwick.