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.
Communication and the First World War
1st Edition
Edited
By John Griffiths
December 13, 2021
Despite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War, a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge, this volume fills the gap in the market, ...
British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit
1st Edition
By Andrekos Varnava
March 31, 2021
Most of the Cypriot population, especially the lower classes, remained loyal to the British cause during the Great War and the island contributed significantly to the First World War, with men and materials. The British acknowledged this yet failed to institute political and economic reforms once ...
Burying America’s World War Dead
1st Edition
By Tracy Fisher
September 30, 2020
After the World War ended, the families of the American war dead were faced with a difficult choice. Political leaders like former President Theodore Roosevelt were encouraging families to leave the dead with their comrades in European cemeteries to create stronger political ties between the United...
Policing the Home Front 1914-1918: The control of the British population at war
1st Edition
By Mary Fraser
September 30, 2020
The civilian police during the First World War in Great Britain were central to the control of the population at home. This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people’s daily lives. The aim is to tell the story of the ...
The Great War in the Middle East: A Clash of Empires
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Johnson, James Kitchen
September 30, 2020
Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Arabia offered a ...
Veterans of the First World War: Ex-Servicemen and Ex-Servicewomen in Post-War Britain and Ireland
1st Edition
Edited
By David Swift, Oliver Wilkinson
September 30, 2020
This volume synthesises the latest scholarship on First World War veterans in post-war Britain and Ireland, investigating the topic through its political, social and cultural dynamics. It examines the post-war experiences of those men and women who served and illuminates the nature of the post-war ...
Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears'
1st Edition
By Michael J. K. Walsh
August 14, 2020
Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘No Man’s Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields of France)’, have been recorded numerous times in a dozen or more languages indicating the ...
War Time: First World War Perspectives on Temporality
1st Edition
Edited
By Louis Halewood, Adam Luptak, Hanna Smyth
August 14, 2020
The International Society for First World War Studies’ ninth conference, ‘War Time’, drew together emerging and leading scholars to discuss, reflect upon, and consider the ways that time has been conceptualised both during the war itself and in subsequent scholarship. War Time: First World War ...
British Battle Planning in 1916 and the Battle of Fromelles: A Case Study of an Evolving Skill
1st Edition
By Roger Lee
June 30, 2020
Despite the substantial output of revisionist scholarship over the last decade reappraising the performance of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War, there still remains a stubborn perception that its commanders were incompetent, inflexible and unimaginative. Whilst much ...
British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War
1st Edition
By Peter E. Hodgkinson
June 30, 2020
Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood. In order to reconnect the ...
Churches, Chaplains and the Great War
1st Edition
By Hanneke Takken
June 30, 2020
This book is an international comparative study of the British, German and French military chaplains during the First World War. It describes their role, position and daily work within the army and how the often conflicting expectations of the church, the state, the military and the soldiers ...
Internment during the First World War: A Mass Global Phenomenon
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi, Matthew Stibbe
June 30, 2020
Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occurred during the First World War when, in the interests of ‘security’ in a situation of total war, the internment of ‘enemy aliens’ became ...