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

Abstract

Introduction Stig Foerster Part I. Basic Reflections: 1. From cabinet war to total war: the perspective of military doctrine, 1861-1918 Hew Strachan 2. World War I and the theory of total war: reflections on the British and German cases Roger Chickering Part II. The Changing Realities of Warfare: 3. World War I and the revolution in logistics Martin van Creveld 4. Mass warfare and the impact of technology Dennis E. Showalter 5. Total war through new weapons? The use of chemical agents in World War I Rolf-Dieter Muller 6. Planning total war? Falkenhayn and the Battle of Verdun 1916 Holger Afflerbach 7. The most extensive experiment that imagination can produce: violence of war, emotional stress, and German medicine Wolfgang U. Eckart Part III. War Against Noncombatants: 8. War between soldiers and enemy civilians, 1914-15 John Horne and Alan Kramer 9. The blockade of Germany and the strategy of starvation Avner Offer 10. Total rhetoric, limited war: Germany's U-boat campaign, 1917-18 Holger H. Herwig 11. The first air war against noncombatants: strategic bombing of German cities in World War I Christian Geinitz 12. Bullying the neutrals: the case of the Netherlands Marc Frey Part IV. Politicians, Soldiers and the Problem of Unlimited Warfare: 13. Poincare, Clemenceau, and the quest for total victory J. F. V. Keiger 14. Strategy and unlimited warfare in Germany: Moltke, Falkenhayn, and Ludendorff Wilhelm Deist 15. The strategy of unlimited warfare: Kitchener, Robertson, and Haig David French 16. French strategy on the Western Front, 1914-18 David Stevenson 17. Strategy and total war in the United States Russell F. Weigley Part V. Mobilizing Economies and Finance for War: 18. War aims, state intervention, and business leadership in Germany: the case of Hugo Stinnes Gerald D. Feldman 19. Lloyd George and the management of the British war economy Keith Grieves 20. Better late than never: the American economic war effort, 1917-18 Elisabeth Glaser 21. How (not) to pay for the war: traditional finance and total war Niall Ferguson Part VI. Societies Mobilized for War: 22. Mobilizing German society for war Richard Bessel 23. Women's wartime services under the cross: patriotic communities in Germany, 1912-18 Jean H. Quataert 24. Pandora's Box: propaganda and war hysteria in the United States during World War I Joerg Nagler 25. Painting and music during and after the Great War: the art of total war Arthur Marwick Index.