Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens - A World War I Sourcebook

Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens 2/e offers a vivid range of eyewitness perspectives - from female munitions workers to Indian troops in France - which explore the social, cultural, and military dimensions of World War I. This second edition includes added material to reflect the very latest historical thinking.
_ Combines documents and themes that have proven successful in the first edition with new sources and topics that are currently at the forefront of historical debate and research
_ Now features 59 new documents which illustrate the imperial dimensions of the conflict and broaden the coverage of 'war culture' and developments in Eastern Europe
_ Documents have been included which pay particular attention to the experiences and perspectives of ordinary people, whose voices are often underrepresented in broad accounts
_ The bibliography has been expanded and completely updated, complemented by a new series of maps and illustrations

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

List of Maps xiii

Chronology xv

Preface xix

I The Mood of 1914 1

War Comes to France 6

1. A Nation Suddenly United 7

2. We Shall Be without Fear 12

3. On the Way to the Front 14

Russia: For the Tsar and Motherland 15

4. The View from St. Petersburg 15

5. Russia's Popular Mood 18

Germany: For the Kaiser and Fatherland 18

6. A Just War against England 19

7. The Socialist Alternative 21

8. German Socialists Support the War 22

9. Thoughts on Mobilization 23

Britain and the Empire Mobilize 23

10. Popular Hysteria 24

11. Recruiting for War 26

12. A British Student in Arms 29

13. A Canadian Clergyman at War 31

14. The View from the Cameroons 33

II War on the Western Front 37

Adapting to Trench Warfare 40

1. Life Different as Possible 41

2. The Attack 45

3. War is Like a Big Picnic 49

4. All the World Over a Boy is a Boy, a Mother a Mother 51

5. War Diary of the Seaforth Highlanders 53

6. A Working Party 55

7. A Canadian in the Trenches 56

8. Report on the Afternoon's Actions 58

9. Indian Units in France 59

Commitment, Duty or Disillusion: German Students Assess the War 61

10. The Readiness to Make a Sacrifice 62

11. My Life is no Longer My Own 64

12. I Look upon Death and Call upon Life 65

13. Here One becomes another Man 66

14. Copse 125 67

Humor and Morale 69

15. War 70

16. Ten German Pioneers 71

17. Rats 72

III War to the East and South 73

The Eastern Front 77

1. Tannenberg 78

2. Bad Things are Good Things under Adverse Circumstances 79

3. Not a Beaten Army 83

4. The Russian Turmoil 84

5. War in the East 85

6. Serbia's War 86

7. The Army behind Barbed Wire 88< br>
8. Among Prisoners of War 90

War in the Mediterranean 93

9. The Italian Front 93

10. Gallipoli 97

11. The ANZAC Experience 99

12. The Turkish Defense 101

13. Palestine Campaigns 104


Africa and Asia 113

14. The Use of Native Troops 113

15. A Doctor in Damaraland 116

16. Petition to King George V 117

17. The Fall of Tsingtao 119

18. Japan's Twenty-One Demands 121

IV Combat in the Machine Age 125

Technology and the Battlefield 128

1. The Dominance of the Machine Gun 128

2. Gas Warfare 130

3. Gas at the Front 132

4. Tanks at Ypres 133

5. Shell Shock 136

6. Picture of Desolation 137

The Naval War 139

7. Battle at Sea 140

8. Rusting at Anchor 142

9. Jutland 143

10. Adventures of the U-202 145

The Aerial War 148

11. Zeppelin 148

12. Air Raids 150

1 3. The Importance of the Airplane 152

14. A Superior Pilot 154

15. In the Clouds above Baghdad 156

V Mobilizing the Home Front 159

The State 163

1. The War and British Liberties 164

2. The State as the Supreme God 165

3. Germany's Government at War 166

4. Censorship 168

5. War, Prostitution, and Venereal Disease in Germany 172

6. The Russian State 175


7. Russian Education 176

The Economy 178

8. Economic Exhaustion in Southeastern Eur