Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918

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Publications of the German Historical Institute: Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 The First World War was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict in the world’s history, and it gave birth to the concept of total war. The essays in this 2000 volume analyse the experience of the war in light of this concept’s implications, in particular the systematic erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres. With an emphasis on developments in Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States, leading scholars from Europe and North America locate the First World War along a trajectory that began in the wars of the middle of the nineteenth century and culminated in worldwide conflict in the middle of the twentieth. …