Contents Part I. The Challenge of Mobilization and Stalemate A. The Mood of 1914 1. Mobilization of French Troops: a. Diary of a French Army Chaplain. b. Memoirs of War. c.

On the Way to the Front 2. Belgium on the Defensive 3. A Just War Against England 4. Hussars on the March 5. The View from St. Petersburg 6. Britain's Destiny and Duty 7. Manifesto of German University Professors 8.

German Socialists Support the War 9. "Chant of Hate" 10. "The Beginnings" 11. Common Sense About War 12. The Socialist Alternative B. Accommodation to the Military Service 1. To Give One's Life for the Fatherland 2. War Letter from France 3.

German Students' War Letters: a. Franz Blumenfeld. b. Herbert Weisser 4. A British Student in Arms 5. We of Italy: a. Long Live Our Navy. b.

This War of Liberation 6. A French Historian Remembers C. The Realities of War 1. The Attack 2. English War Letters: a. Harold Chapin. b. Julian Grenfell.

c. Melville Hastings 3. A French Soldier Confronts the Stalemate 4. German Students at War: a. Alfons Ankenbrand. b. Kurt Peterson. c.

Johannes Haas 5. Copse 125 6. On the Eastern Front: a. John Morse. b. Bernard Pares 7. The Keys of Jerusalem D. The Varieties of War 1.

The First Gas Attack 2. Rusting at Anchor 3. Adventures of the U-202 4. Knights of the Sky: a. Wings of War. b. Aerial Combat. c.

"A Song of the Plane" 5. Zeppelin over England 6. The New Heroes 7. Humor and Morale: a. "War." b. "Ten German Pioneers." c.

"Rats." Part II. Society Under Stress A. Religion, Nationalism, and Nationalities 1. The Sacred Union and French Catholicism 2. A British Clergyman at the Front 3. Italian Clergy Greet the War: a. Military Chaplain Donatelli.

b. Rabbi Levi 4. A German Rabbi in the Field 5. Faith in the Midst of Death: a. The Religion of the Inarticulate. b. Mass and Benediction in the Field. c.

Spiritual Consciousness 6. Russian Jews Demand an End to Discrimination 7. Ethnic Minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire 8. Race and Religion 9. German Subversion in London B. Standards of Living 1. A Bremen Family's Suffering 2. No Meat in Berlin 3.

Diet and Nutrition in Wartime: a. Workers' Diets. b. Wartime Cookery. c. Practicing Strict Economy 4. The Experience of Children: a. Marie Lacante.

b. AndrÉ Houwen. c. Orphans C. Gender and Feminism 1. A New Spirit at Work 2. Loss and Gain 3. A New Role for Women? 4.

Does Women's Service Entitle Them to the Vote? 5. The Woman Worker After the War 6. Women's National Service in Germany: a. Helene Lange. b. Magda Trott 7. A Woman in the Service of the Tsar D. A Crisis of Masculinity 1.

A Scandalous Trial 2. Shell Shock: a. Nature and Causes. b. Malingering 3. The Disabled Soldier: a. What the Disabled Soldier Wants to Know. b.

Training the Disabled Part III. State and Society in Crisis A. The Expansion of the State 1. The War and British Liberties 2. The State as the Supreme God? 3. Germany's Government at War 4. Censorship 5. War, Prostitution, and Venereal Disease in Germany 6.

Prince Lvov on Russia's Opportunities and Difficulties 7. Russian Education B. Economic Mobilization 1. Austria-Hungary's War Economy 2. Economic Exhaustion in Southeastern Europe 3. Weakness of the Italian Economy 4. Mobilizing Italian Workers 5. Russia's Economic Situation 6.

Organizing Raw Materials in Germany 7. Germany's Food Supply 8. Germany's Economic Collapse: a. Conditions in Berlin. b. Captain Roddie on Leipzig. c. A German Woman's Petition 9.

Food for France C. Dissent, Mutiny, and Revolution 1. Neutralism in Italy 2. Resignation in the French Villages 3. The French Mutinies 4. Shattered Spirits 5. A Soldier's Reflections 6. Working-Class Resistance in Britain 7.

The Cost of Conscience 8. Britain's Parliament Debates Conscientious Objection 9. Pacifism--A Political Crime? 10. Lenin's View of the War 11. A Socialist Appeal to Workers 12. Strikes in Britain 13. Rebellion in Ireland 14. A Warning from the SPD 15.

Revolutionary Sentiment in Germany: a. Proclamation of the War Office at Leipzig to the Workers, April 20, 1917. b. The Demands of the Strike Directorate in Berlin, January 29, 1918. c. Mutiny and Revolution in the German Fleet 16. The Role of Women in a New Germany 17. The Russian Revolution: a.

Army State of Mind. b. The Baltic Fleet. c. War Management at Court. d. The Revolution at the Front Part IV. The Aesthetic War A.

War of Words 1. Women's Perspective: a. "Sing a Song of War-Time." b. "Women at Munition Making." c. "Peace" 2. "A Working Party" 3.

"The Dead" 4. Suffering on the Eastern Front: a. "War." b. "In the East." c. "Grodek" 5. The Destruction of Youth: a.

"Disabled." b. "Mental Cases" 6. The Soldier as Reader 7. On Keeping a Diary 8. Propaganda 9. German Atrocities B. The Visual War 1.

KÄthe Kollwitz's Diary 2. Hospital Orderly FelixmÜller 3. An Appeal to Solidarity: a. "Hymn of Brotherly Love." b. "To All Artists, Musicians, Poets" 4. "An Appeal from Russian Artists" Photo Essay: On Using Posters as Evidence C. War and Memory 1.

Way Men Fought 2. War Cemeteries.