Böcker i Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare-serien

A transnational comparative history of Catholic lived religion in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Great War, this book demonstrates how Catholic forms of belief and practice enabled soldiers on the front line, as well as women and children on the home front, to endure war and loss.

The history of the 1948 war in Palestine has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens to these narratives when they arise out of personal stories. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev examines the memories of those affected by the war, and how events have been mythologized.

A fascinating new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the wide-ranging impact of the Great War far from the Western Front. Adopting a global context, this book reveals how Japan participated wholeheartedly in new post-war projects of democracy, internationalism, disarmament and peace, shaping Japan's twentieth-century world.

China's role in the First World War has been a curiously neglected topic. This 2005 book is a full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict from perspectives of international history, using previously unknown archival materials. In this account, Professor Xu restores the China war memory into its rightful place.

Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French pacifist schoolteachers of the interwar decades for cultivating antipatriotism and facilitating the defeat of 1940. In this book, Mona L. Siegel challenges such equations of teachers' pacifism with national betrayal and argues that interwar schoolteachers ultimately solidified French citizens' patriotism.

Using a wealth of published and unpublished wartime and restropective writings, this 2004 book contrasts war as lived experience and war as memory. Fighting Different Wars is an interesting, richly textured and multi-layered book that will be compelling reading for all those interested in the First World War.

This book is the first systematic study of German soldier newspapers as a representation of daily life on the front during the First World War. It reveals the importance of comradeship and manliness in soldier identity, both for soldiers' morale as well as for justifying the treatment of occupied civilians.

The Russo-Japanese War was the first international conflict of the twentieth century. Presenting fascinating insights into the attitudes of ordinary Japanese people towards the war, this innovative study sheds light on the social and political complexities of Japanese society during this period and the war's implications for modern Japan.

Examining the role of front-line soldiers in the German revolution of 1918, in this book Scott Stephenson considers why their response to the revolution was so different from the rest of the army and the implications this would have for the course of the German Revolution and for the Weimar Republic itself.

In 1944 Belgium was liberated at lightning speed. Past accounts have focussed on the stunning Allied victories and the initial euphoria of liberation but chronic food and fuel shortages, rampant venereal disease, and deteriorating discipline followed leading many Belgians to lament 'from the liberators, oh Lord, liberate us'.

A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.

This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War. Heonik Kwon illuminates critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam by examining stories about spirits of the war dead claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the presence of ghosts.

This book explores the cult of the navy: the ways in which the navy and the sea were celebrated in fleet reviews, naval visits and ship launches during the age of empire. By focusing on this naval theatre, Jan Ruger offers a fascinating new history of the Anglo-German antagonism.

Roger Chickering traces the all-embracing impact of the First World War on life in the German city of Freiburg. His book shows how the war took over every facet of life in the city, from industrial production to the supply of basic material resources, above all food and fuel.

Zeev W. Mankowitz tells the remarkable story of the 250,000 survivors of the Holocaust who converged on the American Zone of Occupied Germany from 1945 to 1948. Using largely inaccessible archival material, Mankowitz gives a moving and sensitive account of Holocaust survivors.

This book analyses how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the Second World War. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach, based on extensive archival research. Brilliantly researched and fluently written, this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history.

This book takes a new look at France during and after the German occupation. It challenges traditional chronology that concentrates on the Vichy government and punctures standard interpretations that divide occupied France into resisters and collaborators. Throughout, race - specifically Jewishness - and gender are drawn together in original and illuminating ways.

This compelling study examines the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front in World War I. It reveals an important legacy of the war, which conditioned German relations with Eastern Europe, especially during later Nazi occupation. It fills a yawning gap in the literature of the Great War.

This study attempts to show how the Spanish Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as 'the victors', taking as its main focus the fierce repression and violence of the period, and the role of Catholic and Fascist ideology.

This is a major new study which evaluates the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration.

Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in Vienna, the capital city. She argues that while Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts, women, children, and 'left at home' men waged a protracted, socially devastating war against one another.

Citizen Soldiers uses letters and official sources to investigate the experience of the British soldier in the First World War. It casts light on the soldier's relationship with home, his attitudes towards war, command and discipline within the army and the importance of local identity to military morale.

In this book, Anne Dolan explores the tensions between memory and forgetting in twentieth-century Ireland, by examining the methods and rituals of commemoration. The book's main difference from other books lies in its close examination of the legacy of civil war bitterness in Ireland.

The first major study of German attitudes towards England during the Great War, 1914-18. This book focuses on the extremity of anti-English feeling in Germany, and on the attempt by writers, propagandists and cartoonists to redefine Britain as the chief enemy of the German people and their cultural heritage.

This book, first published in 1999, explores how people dealt with the grief process during and immediately after the two world wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, this study makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends and family.

This book, first published in 2000, analyses German public opinion at the outbreak of the Great War. Jeffrey Verhey's powerful study demonstrates that the myth of war enthusiasm was historically inaccurate. This analysis sheds light on the role of political myths in modern German political culture.

This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyses how experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and performative power of public commemoration, Benjamin Ziemann reveals how individual recollections fed into the public narrative of the experience of war.

National Cleansing, first published in 2005, examines the prosecution of over one hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. The book illustrates that the prosecution of collaborators and war criminals represented a genuine attempt to confront the crimes of the past.

Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen - the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy regime, cohabitated with the Germans and stole from their employer. Moreover, by intertwining the history of the working classes with Holocaust history, she highlights unexpected histories under Vichy and sensitive memories of the post-war period. Ultimately, this book bursts the myths of cheminot resistance and collaboration in the Holocaust, and reveals that there is more to their story than this. The cheminots fed both the French nation and the German military apparatus, exemplifying the complexities of personal, professional and political life under occupation.

In this groundbreaking study, Heather Jones provides the first in-depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners. She shows how the war radicalised captivity treatment in Britain, France and Germany, dramatically undermined international law protecting prisoners of war and led to new forms of forced prisoner labour and reprisals, which fuelled wartime propaganda that was often based on accurate prisoner testimony. This book reveals how, during the conflict, increasing numbers of captives were not sent to home front camps but retained in western front working units to labour directly for the British, French and German armies - in the German case, by 1918, prisoners working for the German army endured widespread malnutrition and constant beatings. Dr Jones examines the significance of these new, violent trends and their later legacy, arguing that the Great War marked a key turning-point in the twentieth-century evolution of the prison camp.