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.
New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City
1st Edition
By Ross J. Wilson
June 30, 2020
The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading centre, its role in the conflict was realised far sooner than elsewhere in the United States. This ...
Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War: Determining the Fate of Britain’s and New Zealand’s Conscripts
1st Edition
By David Littlewood
May 07, 2019
While a plethora of studies have discussed why so many men decided to volunteer for the army during the Great War, the experiences of those who were called up under conscription have received relatively little scrutiny. Even when the implementation of the respective Military Service Acts has been ...
The Royal Flying Corps, the Western Front and the Control of the Air, 1914–1918
1st Edition
By James Pugh
April 11, 2019
By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of ’all arms’ warfare on the Western Front. This doctrine, integrating infantry, artillery, armoured vehicles and - crucially - air power, was to prove highly effective and formed the basis of major military operations for...
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 ...
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 ...