The Routledge History of the First World War is a work which, in a single volume, covers a range of major themes and issues relating to that conflict.

Paul R. Bartrop is Emeritus Professor of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, and a Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. A much-published author and editor, his works include The Routledge History of the Second World War (2021).

Introduction

Origins and Outbreak: Why War?

Andrew G. Bonnell

1 The Western Front: Then and Now

William Philpott

2 The Eastern Front

David R. Stone

3 The Middle East Front during the First World War

Jean Bou

4 A "Sideshow" to the Great War: The Forgotten Campaign in the Caucasus

Tigran Martirosyan

5 A Cosmopolitan Education in Arms: The Salonika Front 1915-1918

Alan Wakefield

6 The Italian Front

Marco Mondini

7 The First World War at Sea: A Tale of Two Wars

Richard Dunley

8 Cavalry of the Clouds: The Development and Experience of the First World War in the Air

Ross Mahoney

9 Invaded, Occupied, Liberated: Belgium in the First World War

Laurence van Ypersele and Emmanuel Debruyne

10 Brazil at War

Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

11 Chinese Manpower Contributions and Dashed Hopes in the First World War and Versailles

Kristin Mulready-Stone

12 The French Home Front(s), 1914-1918

Martha Hanna

13 Greece, 1914-1922: The Experience of Total War

Loukianos Hassiotis

14 New Perspectives on Ireland's Great War

Marie Coleman

15 Italy during the First World War: The Home Front

Marco Mondini and Francesco Frizzera

16 Japan in the First World War

Frederick R. Dickinson

17 The Kingdom of Montenegro: A State Lost in the Great War

FrantiSek sistek

18 Portugal at War

Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses

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20 Imperial Russia's Revolutionary Great War

Laura Engelstein

Jovana Lazic

22 "Put This in Our Great History:" Thai Experiences in World War I

Richard A. Ruth

23 Enduring the First World War: British Society, 1914-1918

Catriona Pennell

24 The United States during the First World War

Andrew S. Walgren

25 Austria-Hungary Enters the War and Why it Never Left

Anatol Schmied-Kowarzik

26 "May the Bulgarian Soldier Fly from One Victory to Another:" Bulgarian Participation in the Great War

Eleonora Naxidou

27 German Society and the First World War

Paul R. Bartrop

28 The Ottoman Empire

Charalampos Minasidis

29 The First World War in Australia: Commitment and Division

Bart Ziino

30 Affirming a Nation: Canadians Respond to the First World War

Serge Marc Durflinger

31 Crossroads of Empire: India during the First World War

Andrew T. Jarboe

32 Equalizing Sacrifice: New Zealand Society and Conscription

David Littlewood

33 An Ill-Fated Encounter: Newfoundland and the First World War

Paul R. Bartrop

34 A House Divided: South Africa and the First World War

Ian van der Waag and Kent Fedorowich

35 "Lads of the West:" The British West Indies Regiment (1915-1919)

Dominiek Dendooven

36 The British Colonial Empire

Bill Nasson

37 Rallying, Reconfiguring and Resisting Empire: Dynamics of the First World War in France's Colonies

Dónal Hassett

38 World War I and the German Colonies

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

39 From the Center to the Edge: Italian Colonies in the First World War

Simona Berhe

40 The Belgian Colonial Empire

Matthew G. Stanard

41 The Portuguese Colonial Empire and Portuguese Communities Abroad

Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses

42 Alliance Politics and the First World War

Greg Kennedy

43 Science, Technology, and Innovation

Jeffrey Allan Johnson

44 Propaganda

Stephen Badsey

45 Intelligence in the Great War

Mark Stout

46 Conscientious Objectors and the War

Christopher L. Harrison

47 Civilian Internment and the War

Arnd Bauerkämper

48 "God with us, and we with God, and victory will be ours:" War, Religion and the Chaplains

Hanneke Takken

49 The Wounds of War: Injury, Sickness and Survival on the Western Front

Fiona Reid

50 Behind Barbed Wire: The International Experience of Captivity during the First World War

Aaron Pegram

51 "A Purely Intuitive Sense of what Justice Demanded:" War Pogroms, 1914-1918

Polly Zavadivker

52 Genocide during the First World War

Deborah Mayersen

53 Neutrals and Neutrality in a World of Total War, 1914-1918

Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames

54 Vatican Neutrality and the Great War

Adrian Ciani

Philip Zelikow

Nick Lloyd

57 Complications and Compromise: The Paris Peace Conference and the End of the Great War

David Sutton

Jordana Silverstein

59 Remember the Fallen: Memorialization of the Great War

Abigail Winslow

60 Endings and Beginnings: A World at War and its Place in Global History

Gary Sheffield

Chronology of the First World War