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 / Staephane 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