The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live. This volume brings together essays by distinguished historians, covering the war's causes and consequences; strategy and tactics; and its political and human legacies.

"First edition published 1998; this edition published 2014" --Title page verso. Includes index. Originally published: 1998.

Origins of the War /Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914--1917 / Holger Afflerbach -- Manoeuvre warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914--1915 / Dennis E. Showalter -- Strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914--1917 / David French -- Balkans, 1914--1918 / Richard J. Crampton -- Turkey's War / Ulrich Trumpener -- War in Africa / David Killingray -- War at Sea / Paul G. Halpern -- Economic warfare / B. J. C. Mckercher -- Economic mobilization: money, munitions, and machines / Hew Strachan -- role of women in the war / Susan R. Grayzel -- Challenge to liberalism: the politics of the home fronts / John Turner -- Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916--1917 / Trevor Wilson -- Mutinies and military morale / Alexander Watson -- War aims and peace negotiations / David Stevenson -- Propaganda and the mobilization of consent / J. M. Winter -- Socialism, peace, and revolution, 1917--1918 / John Horne -- Entry of the USA into the war and its effects / David Trask -- German victories, 1917--1918 / Holger H. Herwig -- War in the air / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- Allied Victories, 1918 / Tim Travers -- Peace settlement / Zara Steiner -- No End to war / Robert Gerwarth -- 24.Memory and the Great War / Modris Eksteins.