Warfare and Belligerence

Pierre Purseigle is Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham, England. A graduate from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Lyon, he is the co-editor, with Dr. Jenny Macleod, University of Edinburgh, of Uncovered Fields. Perspectives in First World War Studies (Brill, 2004).

• Introduction : warfare and belligerence : approaches to the First World War / Pierre Purseigle .. 1 1 'It all goes wrong!' : German, French, and British approaches to mastering the western front / Dennis Showalter ..39 2 Discipline in the Italian army 1915-1918 / Vanda Wilcox ..73 3 New Jerusalems : sacrifice and redemption in the war experiences of English and German military chaplains / Patrick Porter ..101 4 Encountering the 'enemy' : prisoner of war transport and the development of war cultures in 1914 / Heather Jones ..133 5 Marc Sangnier's war, 1914-1919 : portrait of a soldier, Catholic and social activist / Gearoid Barry ..163 6 From liberalism to labour : Josiah C. Wedgwood and English liberalism during the First World War / Paul Mulvey ..189 7 Protest and disability : a new look at African American soldiers during the First World War / Jennifer D. Keene ..215 8 Huts, demobilisation and the quest for an associational life in rural communities in England after the great war / Keith Grieves ..243 9 An American geographer between science and diplomacy : the mission of Douglas W. Johnson in Europe, May-November 1918 / Nicolas Ginsburger ..265 10 The great war and modern scholarship : academic responses to war in Paris and London / Elizabeth Fordham ..295 11 New writers, new literary genres (1914-1918) : the contribution of historical comparatism (France, Germany) / Nicolas Beaupre ..323 12 Women readers of Henri Barbusse : the evidence of letters to the author / Leonard V. Smith ..347 13 Cinematic representations of the enemy in Belgian silent fiction films / Leen Engelen ..359 14 Paris, Berlin : war memory in two capital cities (1914-1933) / Elise Julien ..379