pt. 1. Origins -- The war imagined : 1890-1914 / Gerd Krumeich -- The war explained : 1914 to the present / John Keiger -- pt. 2. The military conflict -- The war experienced : command, strategy, and tactics, 1914-1918 / Hew Strachan -- War in the West, 1914-1916 / Holger Herwig -- War in the East and Balkans, 1914-18 / Denis Showalter -- The Italian front, 1915-18 / Giorgio Rochat -- The Turkish War, 1914-1918 / Ulrich Trumpener -- The war in Africa / David Killingray -- Western front, 1917-18 / Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior -- The war at sea / Paul G. Halpern -- War in the air / John H. Morrow -- pt. 3. Faces of war -- Combat / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau -- Atrocities and massacres / Alan Kramer -- War aims and neutrality / Jean-Jacques Becker -- Industrial mobilization and war economies / Theo Balderston -- Faiths, ideologies and the "cultures of war" / Annette Becker -- Demography / Jay Winter -- Gender (masculinity and femininity) / Susan Grayzel -- Labour, pacifism, and revolution / John Horne -- Medicine and psychology (including shell-shock) / Sophie Delaporte -- Science and technology / Anne Rasmussen -- Intellectuals and writers / Christophe Prochasson -- The visual arts and the war / Annette Becker -- Film and the war / Pierre Sorlin -- pt. 4. States, nations, and empires -- Austria-Hungary and "Yugoslavia" / Mark Cornwall -- Belgium / Sophie de Schaepdrijver -- Britain and Ireland / Adrian Gregory -- France / Leonard Smith -- Germany / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- German-occupied Eastern Europe / Vejas Liulevicius -- Italy / Antonio Gibelli -- Russia / Eric Lohr -- Turkey / Hamit Boazarslan -- USA / Jennifer Keene -- French and British empires / Robert Aldrich and Chris Hilliard -- pt. 5. Legacies -- The peace settlement, 1919-1939 / Carole Fink -- War after the war : conflicts, 1919-23 / Peter Gatrell -- Mourning and memory / Laurence van Ypersele