Chapter
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 Nevin: 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
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
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 (I)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