Routledge Studies in First World War History
About the Book Series
The First World War is a subject of perennial interest to historians and is often regarded as a watershed event, marking the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the 'modern' industrial world. The sheer scale of the conflict and massive loss of life means that it is constantly being assessed and reassessed to examine its lasting military, political, sociological, industrial, cultural and economic impact. Reflecting the latest international scholarly research, the Routledge Studies in First World War History series provides a unique platform for the publication of monographs on all aspects of the Great War. Whilst the main thrust of the series is on the military aspects of the conflict, other related areas (including cultural, visual, literary, political and social) are also addressed. Books published are aimed primarily at a post-graduate academic audience, furthering exciting recent interpretations of the war, whilst still being accessible enough to appeal to a wider audience of educated lay readers.
Germany’s First World War Aviators: The Lives of Fliers
1st Edition
By Robert W. Rennie
November 21, 2025
This book offers new methodological approaches which contextualize the lives of German WWI aviators through the iconography which created their image, the act of killing and rituals of death in aerial combat, and collapsing perceptions of space and time created by the world’s first aerial conflict....
Creative Women of the “Lost Generation”: Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War
1st Edition
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By Kimberly Francis, Margot Irvine
January 30, 2025
This book explores the creative women of the "Lost Generation" including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I. These women’s stories, and the art they ...
After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J. K. Walsh, Andrekos Varnava
May 31, 2023
A century after the Armistice and the associated peace agreements that formally ended the Great War, many issues pertaining to the UK and its empire are yet to be satisfactorily resolved. Accordingly, this volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to better understanding the post-Armistice ...
Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918
1st Edition
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By Santanu Das, Anna Maguire, Daniel Steinbach
May 31, 2023
This volume gathers an international cast of scholars to examine the unprecedented range of colonial encounters during the First World War. More than four million men of color, and an even greater number of white Europeans and Americans, crisscrossed the globe. Others, in occupied areas, behind the...
Renegotiating First World War Memory: The British and American Legions, 1938–1946
1st Edition
By Ashley Garber
January 09, 2023
First World War-based ex-servicemen’s organisations found themselves facing an existential crisis with the onset of the Second World War. This book examines how two such groups, the British and American Legions, adapted cognitively to the emergence of yet another world war and its veterans in the ...
The Global First World War: African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators
1st Edition
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By Ana Paula Pires, María Inés Tato, Jan Schmidt
January 09, 2023
This volume deals with the multiple impacts of the First World War on societies from South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually largely overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. Due to the lesser intensity of their military involvement in the war (neutrals or latecomers), these ...
Spain and Argentina in the First World War: Transnational Neutralities
1st Edition
By Maximiliano Fuentes Codera
September 26, 2022
This is the first book that analyzes the transnational impact of the Great War simultaneously on two countries, Spain and Argentina, that remained neutral throughout the conflict. Both countries were very relevant in the conception of propaganda and policies of belligerent countries such as France,...
An International Rediscovery of World War One: Distant Fronts
1st Edition
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By Robert B. McCormick, Araceli Hernández-Laroche, Catherine G. Canino
August 01, 2022
International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean. Readers can uncover the neglected stories of this World...
Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War: Love and Sorrow
1st Edition
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By Joy Damousi, Deborah Tout-Smith, Bart Ziino
August 01, 2022
The Great War of 1914-1918 was fought on the battlefield, on the sea and in the air, and in the heart. Museums Victoria’s exhibition World War I: Love and Sorrow exposed not just the nature of that war, but its depth and duration in personal and familial lives. Hailed by eminent scholar Jay Winter ...
Reflections on the Commemoration of the First World War: Perspectives from the Former British Empire
1st Edition
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By David Monger, Sarah Murray
August 01, 2022
The First World War’s centenary generated a mass of commemorative activity worldwide. Officially and unofficially; individually, collectively and commercially; locally, nationally and internationally, efforts were made to respond to the legacies of this vast conflict. This book explores some of ...
The Ottoman Army and the First World War
1st Edition
By Mesut Uyar
August 01, 2022
This is a comprehensive new operational military history of the Ottoman army during the First World War. Drawing from archives, official military histories, personal war narratives and sizable Turkish secondary literature, it tells the incredible story of the Ottoman army’s struggle from the ...
Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 1914–18
1st Edition
By Bernard Wilkin
June 28, 2018
Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 1914-1918 explores the combined role played by the French and British Governments and Armies in creating and distributing millions of aerial newspapers and leaflets aimed at the French population trapped behind German lines. Drawing on ...