Untold war
Subtitle: new perspectives in First World War studies
By: edited by Heather Jones, Jennifer O'Brien, and Christoph Schmidt-Supprian.
Contributors: Jones, Heather, 1978-; O'Brien, Jennifer.; Schmidt-Supprian, Christoph.
Series: History of warfare -- v. 49
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9789004166592
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Congresses; World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Papers from the third conference of the International Society for First World War Studies, held Sept. 23-25, 2005 at Trinity College, Dublin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.