Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experiences

by Hugh Cecil (Editor), Peter H. Liddle (Editor), John Terraine (Contributor)

pt. 1. A world at war: The substance of the war / John Terraine ; The civilian dimension of the war / Imanuel Geiss -- pt. 2. Command : responsibility and stress: Winston Churchill and the strain of office, 1914-1915 / Martin Gilbert ; Kitchener at the War Office / George Cassar ; Ludendorff and Germany's defeat / Martin Kitchen ; Haig and Pershing / Frank Vandiver ; The Freench High Command and the mutinies of Spring 1917 / Leonard Smith ; British decision-making 1917 : Lloyd George, the generals and Passchendaele / Trevor Wilson, Robin Prior ; War experience and armistice conditions : generals and politicians / Bullitt Lowry -- pt. 3. The naval and air war: The German naval war 1914-18 : strategy and experience / Werner Rahn ; The British experience of enforcing the blockade : the armed merchant cruisers in 1915 / Chris Page ; The Britich merchant seaman at war / Tony Lane ; Brothers in arms : the British Army and Navy at the Dardanelles / Geoffrey Till ; Italy and the war in the Adriatic / Renato Sicurezza ; The war in the air : the men and their machines / Jack Bruce ; A German airman and his war : Oscar Bechtle / Peter Kilduff -- pt. 4. Soldiers : national and unit identity--general: The French soldier in the trenches / Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau ; Little Mehmet in the desert : the Ottoman soldier's experience / Erik Zürcher ; The American soldier in France 1917-1919 / James Cooke ; The reactions of Irish officers in the British Army to the Easter Rising of 1916 / Jane Leonard ; Ernst Jünger : German stormtrooper chronicler / Thomas Nevin ; The last hurrah : cavalry on the Western Front, August-September 1914 / Richard Holmes -- pt. 5. Soldiers : national and unit identity--British: The war experience of a typical Kitchener division--the 18th Division / Peter Simkins ; The Scottish soldier at war / Edward Spiers ; The British working man in arms / John Bourne ; The experience of the British Special Brigade in gas warfare / Donald Richter ; The forgotten army of women : Queen Mary's Army Auxillary Corps / Diana Shaw -- pt. 6. Soldier morale: The morale of the German Army 1917-18 / Hew Strachan ; Morale in the Austro-Hungarian Army : the evidence of Habsburg Army campaign reports and Allied intelligence officers / Geoffrey Wawro ; Officer-man relations, discipline and morale in the Britsh Army of the Great War / Gary Sheffield ; The Russian soldier's morale from the evidence of tsarist military censorship / Irina Davidian ; Morale and discipline in the Italian Army, 1915-18 / John Gooch -- pt. 7. Medicine and experience: Health systems in khaki : the British and American medical experience / Nick Bosanquet ; Not a doctor's work? : the role of the British Regimental Medical Officer in the field / Ian Whitehead ; The fight against disease in the Mesopotamian campaign / Mark Harrison ; Facial surgery : the patient's experience / Andrew Bamji ; Dr. James Dunn and shell-shock / Keith Sampson -- pt. 8. Peoples at war: British loyalties : the evidence of an archive / Peter Liddle ; A nation at war : the Russian experience / Vladimir Buldakov, Sergei Kudryashev, Genadii Bordiugov ; Germany, the Home Front : (1) the physical and psychological consequences of Home Front hardship / Peter Lowenberg ; Germany, the Home Front : (2) blockade, government and revolution / Alyson Jackson ; The Home Front in Italy / Luigi Tomassini ; Peoples of the underdeveloped world / Bernard Waites -- pt. 9. Resisters : rebels and dissenters: The flames of Louvain : the war experience of an academic community / Mark Derez ; Life in an occupied zone : Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing / Annette Becker ; The Arab experience of the war / Rashid Khalidi ; The experience of Yugoslav agitation in Austria-Hungary, 1917-18 / Mark Cornwall ; Opposition to the war in France : the case of Clovis Andrieu / Jean-Jacques Becker ; The British experience of conscientious objection / Keith Robbins -- pt. 10. The war experience projected : propagandists and their audiences: German teachers at war / Eberhard Demm ; War correspondents and conducting officers on the Western Front from 1915 / Keith Grieves ; Tommy's sisters : the representation of working women's experience / Sharon Ouditt ; The experience of war in American patriotic literature / Patrick Quinn ; French children as target for propaganda / Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau ; Through the eye of the camera : contemporary cinema audiences and their experience of war in the film, "Battle for the Somme" / Nicholas Reeves -- pt. 11. Interpreting war experience : the arts and post-war reflection: Nritish war novelists / Hugh Cecil ; British "anti-war" writers and their critics / Brian Bond ; The French war novel : the case of Louis-Fedinand Céline / Frank Field ; The experience of British artists in the Great War / Paul Gough ; Painting armageddon / Jay Winter ; Sir Ian Hamilton after the war : a liberal general reflects / John Lee.

Genres: History

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First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Robert Whelan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very dense work containing 61 scholarly papers about the first world war. I found the one about the reaction of Irish Officers serving on the Western front during the Easter rising to be particularly interesting. The first hand accounts of soldiers that suffered horrific facial disfigurements was harrowing and moving; I also found the account of the German schoolteacher going about his day very compelling. There was a lot of boring articles in there too, unfortunately.