A Companion to the First World War brings together a team of distinguished historians from 10 countries who contribute 38 substantial and thought-provokingchapters. The volume opens with a section on the state of the world before 1914, as it prepared for war without anticipating its true nature, and concludeswith an examination of the conflicts military, diplomatic, and cultural legacies. In addition to covering the military history of the war and the individual states involved, contributors explore major themes such as war crimes, occupations, film, and gender. Reflecting the latest historical research, this Companion enriches our understanding of the origins, nature, and impact of what remains one of the most devastating events in modern history.John Horne is Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College, Dublin, and a member of the Research Centre at the Museum of the Great War, 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-2386-0
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 728
- Fecha Publicación: 23/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés