This is a volume of comparative essays on the First World War that focuses on one central feature: the political and cultural "mobilization" of the populations

The two World Wars placed unprecedented demands on their participants and had a profound impact on many aspects of national life. The mobilization of human and

Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in World War I, declaring that Germany failed to recognise that the m

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Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero—the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence—has become omnipresent in Americ