Untold War: New Perspectives in First World War Studies

✍ Scribed by Heather Jones, Jennifer O’Brien, Christoph Schmidt-Supprian

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Series: History of Warfare 49
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Complex, brutal and challenging, the First World War continues to inspire dynamic research and debate. The third volume to emerge from the pioneering work of the International Society for First World War Studies, this collection of new essays reveals just how plural the conflict actually was – its totalizing tendencies are shown here to have paradoxically produced diversity, innovation and difference, as much as they also gave rise to certain similarities across wartime societies. Exploring the nature of this 'plural war,' the contributions to this volume cover diverse themes such as combat, occupation, civic identity, juvenile delinquency, chaplains, art and remembrance, across a wide range of societies, including Germany, France, Britain, German colonial Africa, Belgium and Romania. With chapters on both military and cultural history, this book highlights how the first total war of the twentieth century changed social, cultural and military perceptions to an untold extent.

✦ Table of Contents

John Horne: Untold War—Foreword
Heather Jones, Jennifer O'Brien and Christoph Schmidt-Supprian: Introduction: Untold War

Section I: Combat Experienced and Imagined
1 Wencke Meteling: German and French Regiments on the Western Front, 1914–1918
2 Edward Madigan: Hidden Courage: Postwar Literature and Anglican Army Chaplains on the Western Front, 1914–1918
3 Catriona Pennell: 'The Germans Have Landed!': Invasion Fears in the South-East of England, August to December 1914

Section II: Redefining Civic and National Spaces
4 Lisa Mayerhofer: Making Friends and Foes: Occupiers and Occupied in First World War Romania, 1916–1918
5 Aurore François: From Street Walking to the Convent: Child Prostitution Cases Judged by the Juvenile Court of Brussels during World War One
6 Daniel Rouven Steinbach: Defending the Heimat: The Germans in South-West Africa and East Africa during the First World War
7 Jan Vermeiren: The 'Rebirth of Greater Germany': The Austro-German Alliance and the Outbreak of War

Section III: Interpreting Warfare
8 Sonja Müller: Toys, Games and Juvenile Literature in Germany and Britain during the First World War. A Comparison
9 Claudia Siebrecht: The Mater Dolorosa on the Battlefield— Mourning Mothers in German Women's Art of the First World War
10 Joëlle Beurier: Information, Censorship or Propaganda? The Illustrated French Press in the First World War
11 François Bouloc: 'War Profiteers' and 'War Profi ters': Representing Economic Gain in France during the First World War

Section IV: The Challenge of Remembrance
12 Vanessa Ther: 'Humans are Cheap and the Bread is Dear.' Republican Portrayals of the War Experience in Weimar Germany
13 Alan Kramer: The First World War and German Memory
14 Dan Todman: The First World War in Contemporary British Popular Culture

✦ Subjects

Europe;Belgium;France;Germany;Great Britain;Greenland;Italy;Netherlands;Romania;Scandinavia;History;World War I;Military;History