The Great War in history: debates and controversies, 1914 to the present

Three historiographical configurations

Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims?

Generals and ministers: who commanded and how?

Soldiers: how did they wage war?

Businessmen, industrialists, and bankers: how was the economic war waged?

Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution?

Civilians: how did they make war and survive it?

Agents of memory: how did people live between remembrance and forgetting?

The great war in history.