Books in the Legacy of the Great War series

Translated from the French, this study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.

An examination of how French women served their country during World War I - from nursing and munitions manufacture to military service and espionage. In tracing stories about war heroines and villainesses, the study shows what they reveal about the French understanding of the war.

A survivor, the author was captured by the Germans in June 1916 and became a prisoner of war until his repatriation in January 1919. In the Second World War, he was active in the French Resistance, was arrested and detained, and ultimately went into hiding. In this book, he offers a pacifist, internationalist perspective on war.

World War I was a uniquely devastating total war that surpassed all previous conflicts for its destruction. But what was the reality like on the ground, for both the soldiers on the front-lines and the women on the home front? This book examines this question in detail and challenges some strongly held assumptions about the Great War.

Although it was one of the most common experiences of combatants in World War I, captivity has received only a marginal place in the collective memory of the Great War. This book, focusing on POWs on the Eastern Front, reveals a different picture of the War and the human misery it produced.

How can we understand what caused World War I? What role did Germany play? This book encourages us to re-think the events that led to global conflict in 1914.

Focusing on the public ceremonies on and around 11th November which dominated the inter-war years, this book emphasizes the importance of Armistice Day, in reflecting what people felt about the war and in shaping their memories of it.

Goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

A study of the rise of the tourism industry around the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of World War I. The responses to the actual and the imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well as bereavement and how this was shaped by gender, religion and the military experience.

Examines the social and economic role of the German army in the nation's internal affairs during World War I.

Explores the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

Taking as its focus memorials of the World War I in Britain, this book studies public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression.

Looks at World War I from the perspective of German working-class women. This book demonstrates the connection between 'general' social history and women's history while analyzing the dynamics between these different levels of interpretation.

Examines fictional recreations of the First World War in the interwar years and the phenomenal success of one play, "Sheriff's Journey's End". This work challenges the notion of a 'modern' memory generated by the First World War by arguing that middlebrow texts formulated a set of images and ideas that eclipsed the wartime upheaval.

Presents a collection of articles by Antoine Prost. This book covers: an account of war memorials; the troubled history of commemorating the Algerian war; republican representations of war and peace; and, discourse and social conflict in republican France. It offers an understanding of the history of nineteenth and twentieth century France.