Great War, Total War

Preface ix Contributors xi Introduction 1(18) Stig Forster PART ONE BASIC REFLECTIONS From Cabinet War to Total War: The Perspective of Military Doctrine 19(16) Hew Strachan World War I and the Theory of Total War: Reflections on the British and German Cases 35(22) Roger Chickering PART TWO THE CHANGING REALITIES OF WARFARE World War I and the Revolution in Logistics 57(16) Martin van Creveld Mass Warfare and the Impact of Technology 73(22) Dennis E. Showalter Total War as a Result of New Weapons? The Use of Chemical Agents in World War I 95(18) Rolf-Dieter Muller Planning Total War? Falkenhayn and the Battle of Verdun, 1916 113(20) Holger Afflerbach ``The Most Extensive Experiment that the Imagination Can Conceive'': War, Emotional Stress, and German Medicine, 1914-1918 133(20) Wolfgang U. Eckart PART THREE WAR AGAINST NONCOMBATANTS War Between Soldiers and Enemy Civilians, 1914-1915 153(16) John Horne Alan Kramer The Blockade of Germany and the Strategy of Starvation, 1914-1918: An Agency Perspective 169(20) Avner Offer Total Rhetoric, Limited War: Germany's U-Boat Campaign, 1917-1918 189(18) Holger H. Herwig The First Air War Against Noncombatants: Strategic Bombing of German Cities in World War I 207(20) Christian Geinitz Bullying the Neutrals: The Case of the Netherlands 227(20) Marc Frey PART FOUR POLITICIANS, SOLDIERS, AND THE PROBLEM OF UNLIMITED WARFARE Poincare, Clemenceau, and the Quest for Total Victory 247(18) John F. V. Keiger Strategy and Unlimited Warfare in Germany: Moltke, Falkenhayn, and Ludendorff 265(16) Wilhelm Deist The Strategy of Unlimited Warfare? Kitchener, Robertson, and Haig 281(16) David French French Strategy on the Western Front, 1914-1918 297(30) David Stevenson Strategy and Total War in the United States: Pershing and the American Military Tradition 327(22) Russell F. Weigley PART FIVE MOBILIZING ECONOMIES AND FINANCE FOR WAR War Aims, State Intervention, and Business Leadership in Germany: The Case of Hugo Stinnes 349(20) Gerald D. Feldman Lloyd George and the Management of the British War Economy 369(20) Keith Grieves Better Late than Never: The American Economic War Effort 389(20) Elisabeth Glaser How (Not) to Pay for the War: Traditional Finance and ``Total'' 409(28) War Niall Ferguson PART SIX SOCIETIES MOBILIZED FOR WAR Mobilizing German Society for War 437(16) Richard Bessel Women's Wartime Services Under the Cross: Patriotic Communities in Germany 453(32) Jean H. Quataert Pandora's Box: Propaganda and War Hysteria in the United States During World War I 485(16) Jorg Nagler Painting and Music During and After the Great War: The Art of Total War 501(18) Arthur Marwick Index 519