Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction: Concepts and Themes -- 2. A Tale of Two Expeditionary Forces: Religion and Race in the Dardanelles and France -- 3. Far from Home? Perceptions and Experiences of the First World War Nurses and Their Patients -- 4. The Enemy Lurking Behind the Front: Controlling Sex in the German Forces Sent to Eastern and Western Europe, 1914–1918 -- 5. Vietnamese Contingents to the Western Front, 1915–1919 -- 6. Expeditionary Forces in the Shatterzone: German, British and French Soldiers on the Macedonian Front, 1915–1918 -- 7. An Alliance of Competing Identities: Stereotypes and Hierarchies among Entente Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front -- 8. Empire, Oil, and Bavarians: The German Expeditionary Force in the Caucasus, 1918–1919 -- 9. Freikorps in the Baltics: German Expeditionary Forces in Eastern Europe, 1918–1919 -- 10. From Galicia to Galilee: The Ottoman and German Expeditionary Experiences in the First World War in Comparison -- 11. "Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England": The Western Front as the British Soldiers' Sacred Land -- 12. Conclusion: On the Conduct and Consequences of Expeditionary Forces

This multiauthor collection of essays analyzes Russia's Great War and Revolution from the perspective of the Central Powers and their encounters with Russia and the Revolution. The peoples of the Central Powers, from elites to civilians, understood the violent clash of armies in a variety of ways. Essays highlight the variety of military and civilian experiences and deal with topics of how soldiers, civilians, and intellectuals perceived Russia and how these understandings translated into security goals, utopian plans for conquered territories, and interethnic violence