Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a world-wide basis, the real nature of the participants experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe deliver the fruits of recent research in what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Hugh Cecil, Peter Liddle
  • Part I A WORLD AT WAR
    • Chapter 1 John Terraine: The Substance of the War
    • Chapter 2 Imanuel Geiss: The Civilian Dimension of the War
  • Part II COMMAND: RESPONSIBILITY AND STRESS
    • Chapter 3 Martin Gilbert: Winston Churchill and the Strain of Office, 1914–1915
    • Chapter 4 George Cassar: Kitchener at the War Office
    • Chapter 5 Martin Kitchen: Ludendorff and Germany’s Defeat
    • Chapter 6 Frank Vandiver: Haig and Pershing
    • Chapter 7 Leonard Smith: The French High Command and the Mutinies of Spring 1917
    • Chapter 8 Trevor Wilson, Robin Prior: British Decision-making 1917: Lloyd George, the Generals and Passchendaele
    • Chapter 9 Bullitt Lowry: War Experience and Armistice Conditions: Generals and Politicians
  • Part III THE NAVAL AND AIR WAR
    • Chapter 10 Werner Rahn: The German Naval War 1914–18: Strategy and Experience
    • Chapter 11 Chris Page: The British Experience of Enforcing Blockade: The Armed Merchant Cruisers in 1915
    • Chapter 12 Tony Lane: The British Merchant Seaman at War
    • Chapter 13 Geoffrey Till: Brothers in Arms: The British Army and Navy at the Dardanelles
    • Chapter 14 Renato Sicurezza: Italy and the War in the Adriatic
    • Chapter 15 Jack Bruce: The War in the Air: The Men and their Machines
    • Chapter 16 Peter Kilduff: A German airman and his war: Oscar Bechtle
  • Part IV SOLDIERS: NATIONAL AND UNIT IDENTITY – GENERAL
    • Chapter 17 Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau: The French Soldier in the Trenches
    • Chapter 18 Erik Zürcher: Little Mehmet in the Desert: The Ottoman Soldier’s Experience
    • Chapter 19 James Cooke: The American Soldier in France 1917–19
    • Chapter 20 Jane Leonard: The Reactions of Irish Officers in the British Army to the Easter Rising of 1916
    • Chapter 21 Thomas Kevin: Ernst Jünger: German Stormtrooper Chronicler
    • Chapter 22 Richard Holmes: The Last Hurrah: Cavalry on the Western Front, August – September 1914
  • Part V SOLDIERS: NATIONAL AND UNIT IDENTITY – BRITISH
    • Chapter 23 Peter Simkins: The War Experience of a Typical Kitchener Division – the 18th Division
    • Chapter 24 Edward Spiers: The Scottish Soldier at War
    • Chapter 25 John Bourne: The British Working Man in Arms
    • Chapter 26 Donald Richter: The Experience of the British Special Brigade in Gas Warfare
    • Chapter 27 Diana Shaw: The Forgotten Army of Women: Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps
  • Part VI SOLDIER MORALE
    • Chapter 28 Hew Strachan: The Morale of the German Army 1917–18
    • Chapter 29 Geoffrey Wawro: Morale in the Austro-Hungarian Army: the Evidence of Habsburg Army Campaign Reports and Allied Intelligence Officers.
    • Chapter 30 Gary Sheffield: Officer-Man Relations, Discipline and Morale in the British Army of the Great War
    • Chapter 31 Irina Davidian: The Russian Soldier’s Morale from the Evidence of Tsarist Military Censorship
    • Chapter 32 John Gooch: Morale and Discipline in the Italian Army, 1915–18
  • Part VII MEDICINE AND EXPERIENCE
    • Chapter 33 Nick Bosanquet: Health Systems in Khaki: the British and American Medical Experience
    • Chapter 34 Ian Whitehead: Not a Doctor’s Work? The Role of the British Regimental Medical Officer in the Field
    • Chapter 35 Mark Harrison: The Fight Against Disease in the Mesopotamian Campaign
    • Chapter 36 Andrew Bamji: Facial Surgery: the Patient’s Experience
    • Chapter 37 Keith Simpson: Dr James Dunn and Shell-shock
  • Part VIII PEOPLES AT WAR
    • Chapter 38 Peter Liddle: British Loyalties: the Evidence of an Archive
    • Chapter 39 Vladimir Buldakov, Sergei Kudryashev, Genadii Bordiugov: A Nation at War: the Russian Experience
    • Chapter 40 Peter Loewenberg: Germany, the Home Front (1)The Physical and Psychological Consequences of Home Front Hardship.
    • Chapter 41 Alyson Jackson: Germany, the Home Front (2): Blockade, Government and Revolution
    • Chapter 42 Luigi Tomassini: The Home Front in Italy
    • Chapter 43 Bernard Waites: Peoples of the Underdeveloped World
  • Part IX RESISTERS: REBELS AND DISSENTERS
    • Chapter 44 Mark Derez: The Flames of Louvain: The War Experience of an Academic Community
    • Chapter 45 Annette Becker: Life in an Occupied Zone: Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing
    • Chapter 46 Rashid Khalidi: The Arab Experience of the War
    • Chapter 47 Mark Cornwall: The Experience of Yugoslav Agitation in Austria-Hungary, 1917–18
    • Chapter 48 Jean-Jacques Becker: Opposition to the War in France: the Case of Clovis Andrieu.
    • Chapter 49 Keith Robbins: The British Experience of Conscientious Objection
  • Part X THE WAR EXPERIENCE PROJECTED: PROPAGANDISTS AND THEIR AUDIENCES
    • Chapter 50 Eberhard Demm: German Teachers at War
    • Chapter 51 Keith Grieves: War Correspondents and Conducting Officers on the Western Front from 1915
    • Chapter 52 Sharon Ouditt: Tommy’s Sisters: the Representation of Working Women’s Experience
    • Chapter 53 Patrick Quinn: The Experience of War in American Patriotic Literature
    • Chapter 54 Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau: French Children as Target for Propaganda
    • Chapter 55 Nicholas Reeves: Through the Eye of the Camera: Contemporary Cinema Audiences and their Experience of War in the film, ‘Battle of the Somme’
  • Part XI INTERPRETING WAR EXPERIENCE: THE ARTS AND POST-WAR REFLECTION
    • Chapter 56 Hugh Cecil: British War Novelists
    • Chapter 57 Brian Bond: British ‘Anti-War’ Writers and their Critics
    • Chapter 58 Frank Field: The French War Novel: the Case of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    • Chapter 59 Paul Gough: The Experience of British Artists in the Great War
    • Chapter 60 Jay Winter: Painting Armageddon.
    • Chapter 61 John Lee: Sir Ian Hamilton after the War: a Liberal General Reflects
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY, NOTES AND INDEX
  • Ian Beckett: Facing Armageddon: a select bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index