A team of some of the world's most distinguished First World War historians chart the causes, course, and profound political and human consequences of a conflict that changed the world

• Introduction


• 1: Samuel R. Williamson, Jr: The Origins of the War


• 2: Holger Afflerbach: The Strategy of the Central Powers, 1914-1917


• 3: D. E. Showalter: Manoeuvre Warfare: The Eastern and Western Fronts, 1914-1915


• 4: David French: The Strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914-1917


• 5: R. J. Crampton: The Balkans, 1914-1918


• 6: Ulrich Trumpener: Turkey's War


• 7: David Killingray: The War in Africa


• 8: Paul G. Halpern: The War at Sea


• 9: B. J. C. McKercher: Economic Warfare


• 10: Hew Strachan: Economic Mobilization: Money, Munitions, Machines


• 11: Susan Grayzel: The Role of Women in War


• 12: J. A. Turner: The Challenge to Liberalism: The Politics of the Home Fronts


• 13: Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson: Eastern Front and Western Front, 1916-1917


• 14: Alexander Watson: Mutinies and Military Morale


• 15: David Stevenson: War Aims and Peace Negotiations


• 16: J. M. Winter: Propaganda and the Mobilization of Consent


• 17: John Horne: Socialism, Peace, and Revolution, 1917-1918


• 18: David Trask: The Entry of the USA into the War and its Effects


• 19: Holger H. Herwig: The German Victories, 1917-1918


• 20: John H. Morrow, Jr: The War in the Air


• 21: Tim Travers: The Allied Victories, 1918


• 22: Zara Steiner: The Peace Settlement


• 23: Robert Gerwarth: No End to War


• 24: Modris Eksteins: Memory and the Great War


• Further Reading


• Index

Sir Hew Strachan was born in Edinburgh in 1949, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow between 1975 and 1992. He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow between 1992 and 2001, and founded its Scottish Centre for War Studies. From 2002 to 2015 he was Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, and between 2003 and 2012 he directed the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. Since 2015 he has been Professor of International Relations at St Andrews University.