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).

• IntroductionOrigins and Outbreak: Why War?Andrew G. BonnellPart 1: Conflict: Fighting the War1 The Western Front: Then and NowWilliam Philpott2 The Eastern FrontDavid R. Stone3 The Middle East Front during the First World WarJean Bou4 A “Sideshow” to the Great War: The Forgotten Campaign in the CaucasusTigran Martirosyan5 A Cosmopolitan Education in Arms: The Salonika Front 1915-1918Alan Wakefield6 The Italian FrontMarco Mondini7 The First World War at Sea: A Tale of Two WarsRichard Dunley8 Cavalry of the Clouds: The Development and Experience of the First World War in the AirRoss MahoneyPart 2: Experiences: The Allied and Associated Powers9 Invaded, Occupied, Liberated: Belgium in the First World WarLaurence van Ypersele and Emmanuel Debruyne10 Brazil at WarVinicius Mariano de Carvalho11 Chinese Manpower Contributions and Dashed Hopes in the First World War and VersaillesKristin Mulready-Stone12 The French Home Front(s), 1914-1918Martha Hanna13 Greece, 1914-1922: The Experience of Total WarLoukianos Hassiotis14 New Perspectives on Ireland’s Great WarMarie Coleman15 Italy during the First World War: The Home FrontMarco Mondini and Francesco Frizzera16 Japan in the First World WarFrederick R. Dickinson17 The Kingdom of Montenegro: A State Lost in the Great WarFrantišek Šistek18 Portugal at WarFilipe Ribeiro de Meneses19 Romania’s Road to War and its AftermathPaul R. Bartrop20 Imperial Russia’s Revolutionary Great WarLaura Engelstein21 Serbia at WarJovana Lazić22 “Put This in Our Great History:” Thai Experiences in World War IRichard A. Ruth23 Enduring the First World War: British Society, 1914-1918Catriona Pennell24 The United States during the First World WarAndrew S. WalgrenPart 3: Experiences: The Central Powers25 Austria-Hungary Enters the War and Why it Never LeftAnatol Schmied-Kowarzik26 “May the Bulgarian Soldier Fly from One Victory to Another:” Bulgarian Participation in the Great WarEleonora Naxidou27 German Society and the First World WarPaul R. Bartrop28 The Ottoman EmpireCharalampos MinasidisPart 4: Experiences: Greater Britain29 The First World War in Australia: Commitment and DivisionBart Ziino30 Affirming a Nation: Canadians Respond to the First World WarSerge Marc Durflinger31 Crossroads of Empire: India during the First World WarAndrew T. Jarboe32 Equalizing Sacrifice: New Zealand Society and ConscriptionDavid Littlewood33 An Ill-Fated Encounter: Newfoundland and the First World WarPaul R. Bartrop34 A House Divided: South Africa and the First World WarIan van der Waag and Kent Fedorowich35 “Lads of the West:” The British West Indies Regiment (1915-1919)Dominiek DendoovenPart 5: Diversities: Colonial Empires at War36 The British Colonial EmpireBill Nasson37 Rallying, Reconfiguring and Resisting Empire: Dynamics of the First World War in France’s ColoniesDónal Hassett38 World War I and the German ColoniesMatthew P. Fitzpatrick39 From the Center to the Edge: Italian Colonies in the First World WarSimona Berhe40 The Belgian Colonial EmpireMatthew G. Stanard41 The Portuguese Colonial Empire and Portuguese Communities AbroadFilipe Ribeiro de MenesesPart 6: Backrooms: Fighting by Other Means42 Alliance Politics and the First World WarGreg Kennedy43 Science, Technology, and InnovationJeffrey Allan Johnson44 PropagandaStephen Badsey45 Intelligence in the Great WarMark StoutPart 7: Solace, Pain, Torment, and Slaughter46 Conscientious Objectors and the WarChristopher L. Harrison47 Civilian Internment and the WarArnd Bauerkämper48 “God with us, and we with God, and victory will be ours:” War, Religion and the ChaplainsHanneke Takken49 The Wounds of War: Injury, Sickness and Survival on the Western FrontFiona Reid50 Behind Barbed Wire: The International Experience of Captivity during the First World WarAaron Pegram51 “A Purely Intuitive Sense of what Justice Demanded:” War Pogroms, 1914-1918Polly Zavadivker52 Genocide during the First World WarDeborah MayersenPart 8: Surviving: Remaining Neutral53 Neutrals and Neutrality in a World of Total War, 1914-1918Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames54 Vatican Neutrality and the Great WarAdrian CianiPart 9: Termination: Ending the War55 How to End the War? From “Peace Without Victory” to a Victory Without PeacePhilip Zelikow56 Ending the WarNick Lloyd57 Complications and Compromise: The Paris Peace Conference and the End of the Great WarDavid SuttonPart 10: Remembrance and Meanings58 Starting Over: Reordering SocietyJordana Silverstein59 Remember the Fallen: Memorialization of the Great WarAbigail Winslow60 Endings and Beginnings: A World at War and its Place in Global HistoryGary SheffieldChronology of the First World War