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.
The Great War and the British Empire: Culture and society
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Walsh, Andrekos Varnava
June 28, 2018
In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies ...
The Gallipoli Campaign: The Turkish Perspective
1st Edition
By Metin Gürcan, Robert Johnson
October 26, 2017
The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the historiography of the First World War. This ...
Arming the Western Front: War, Business and the State in Britain 1900–1920
1st Edition
By Roger Lloyd-Jones, M.J. Lewis
October 13, 2017
The First World War was above all a war of logistics. Whilst the conflict will forever be remembered for the mud and slaughter of the Western Front, it was a war won on the factory floor as much as the battlefield. Examining the war from an industrial perspective, Arming the Western Front examines ...
German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition: Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch
1st Edition
By Brian Murdoch
June 16, 2017
The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning ...
The Men Who Planned the War: A Study of the Staff of the British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918
1st Edition
By Paul Harris
June 16, 2017
During the Allied victory celebrations there were few who chose to raise a glass to the staff. The high cost of casualties endured by the British army tarnished the reputation of the military planners, which has yet to recover. This book examines the work and development of the staff of the British...
'A Student in Arms': Donald Hankey and Edwardian Society at War
1st Edition
By Ross Davies
February 27, 2017
Donald Hankey was a writer who saw himself as a ’student of human nature’ and peacetime Edwardian Britain as a society at war with itself. Wounded in a murderous daylight infantry charge near Ypres, Hankey began sending despatches to The Spectator from hospital in 1915. Trench life, wrote Hankey,...
Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880–1918
1st Edition
By Stephen Badsey
November 28, 2016
A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both for reasons of prestige and stupidity...
The Clergy in Khaki: New Perspectives on British Army Chaplaincy in the First World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Snape, Edward Madigan
November 17, 2016
British army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the First World War. Like its commanders they have often been characterized as embodiments of ineptitude and hypocrisy. Yet, just as historians have reassessed the motives and performance of British generals, this collection offers ...
Britain, Russia and the Road to the First World War: The Fateful Embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff (1903–16)
1st Edition
By Marina Soroka
November 15, 2016
For much of the later nineteenth-century Britain regarded Russia as its main international rival, particularly as regarded the security of its colonial possessions in India. Yet, by 1907 Russia's political revolution, financial collapse and military defeat by Japan, transformed the situation, ...
The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917–1921
1st Edition
By Adam R. Seipp
November 15, 2016
Historians know a great deal about how wars begin, but far less about how they end. Whilst much has been written about the forces, passions, and institutions that mobilized societies for war and worked to sustain that mobilization through years of struggle, much less is known about the equally ...
British Generalship during the Great War: The Military Career of Sir Henry Horne (1861–1929)
1st Edition
By Simon Robbins
September 30, 2016
Following the career of one relatively unknown First World War general, Lord Horne, this book adds to the growing literature that challenges long-held assumptions that the First World War was a senseless bloodbath conducted by unimaginative and incompetent generals. Instead it demonstrates that men...
The French Army's Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War: The Artillerie Spéciale
1st Edition
By Tim Gale
September 22, 2016
Recent scholarship has challenged the assumption that military commanders during the First World War were inflexible, backward-looking and unwilling to exploit new technologies. Instead a very different picture is now emerging of armies desperately looking to a wide range of often untested and ...